Printing an IFRAME - user would like to be able to EMAIL it instead

**szlamany** · Oct 3rd, 2013, 05:25 AM

Currently I'm using this function to build a hidden iframe and then print it (I am using the jQuery library if that matters)...

Code:

        function printPanel(wesPP) {
            var strTitle = "";
            var strHTML = wesPP.html();
            // Create a random name for the print frame.
            var strFrameName = ("printer-" + (new Date()).getTime());

            // Create an iFrame with the new name.
            var jFrame = $("<iframe name='" + strFrameName + "'>");

            // Hide the frame (sort of) and attach to the body.
            jFrame
		            .css("width", "1px")
		            .css("height", "1px")
		            .css("position", "absolute")
		            .css("left", "-9999px")
		            .appendTo($("body:first"))
	            ;
            // Get a FRAMES reference to the new frame.
            var objFrame = window.frames[strFrameName];

            // Get a reference to the DOM in the new frame.
            var objDoc = objFrame.document;

            // Write the HTML for the document. In this, we will
            // write out the HTML of the current element.
            objDoc.open();
            objDoc.write('<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\">');
            objDoc.write("<" + "html>");
            objDoc.write("<" + "body>");
            objDoc.write("<" + "head>");
            objDoc.write("<" + "title>");
            objDoc.write(strTitle);
            objDoc.write("<" + "/title>");
            objDoc.write("<" + "link href='css/AWCOffice.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />");
            objDoc.write("<" + "/head>");
            objDoc.write("<div class='acs-edit-print'>" + strHTML + "</div>");
            objDoc.write("<" + "/body>");
            objDoc.write("<" + "/html>");
            objDoc.close();

            // Print the document.
            objFrame.focus();
            objFrame.print();

            // Have the frame remove itself in about a minute so that
            // we don't build up too many of these frames.
            setTimeout(
		            function() {
		                jFrame.remove();
		            },
		            (60 * 1000)
		            );

        }

The user has asked me if it is possible for this to go right into an email instead.

Any ideas??

**tr333** · Oct 3rd, 2013, 08:18 PM

Do they want to be able to e-mail the page to someone else? The only way to do that would be to do it all server-side. I doubt it's possible to create an HTML e-mail from a mailto: link, or if it was it would be horribly messy.

**tr333** · Oct 3rd, 2013, 08:21 PM

All the "E-mail page" links that I've seen appear to just send a request to the server which then generates the content for the e-mail and sends it off. Can they not just print to PDF and then e-mail the PDF?

**szlamany** · Oct 3rd, 2013, 08:48 PM

Yes - I've seen that to be true - not possible from the client side....

Worse problem - on a MAC using FF the printable page doesn't even .PRINT properly. And I don't have a mac to test this with - arghh!!!

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