printing a web page

[EyeTalion]

I want to place a button on my page so the user can print a datagrid. My first question is...

1) Why doesn't the button move to the bottom of the datagrid? If there's to much data the button will overlap the datagrid, instead of moving to the bottom of the grid

2)How can I just print the datagrid and not the rest of the page and can you have a print common dialog box pop up in asp.net so the user can choose printers?

thanks,
eye

[EyeTalion]

any printing advice out there?

[robdotnet00]

if your using vs.net you may want to change grid layout to flow layout

[EyeTalion]

whats the difference?

[robdotnet00]

Grid Layout absoultly positions your controls flow layout is more like a traditional web page where you have to use other devices to postions elements

[Musician]

For printing you can design your own custom printable version of your datagrid in a seperate web page or try crystal reports for asp.net.
A custom method would not be that difficult but forget about paging it correctly unless you want to design intricate code that measures string sizes, widths heights, amount of lines that will ft on a page etc.
I tend to say this over and over again but web pages are static html bar javascript and the idea of providing a print dialog etc. is nothing to do with asp.net. asp.net takes your code and returns html to the users browser via iis. Thats it, the magic is done and what the user sees is no different to what he/she might see on a normal html page. You could possibly embed control objects from windows apps but I'm not sure how this would work and you would have to rely on the user allowing the object to be download - all in all moving away from the purpose of asp.net in the first place, to provide a platform independent gui, i.e. the user needs nothing but a browser to use the application.