[RESOLVED] Setting 'OVERFLOW' to '<not set>'

[JMvVliet]

Hi all,

I have a DIV panel in an ASPX page. At default it loads with scrollbars (OVERFLOW: auto). If I want the page to print (by clicking a button), I want to delete the OVERFLOW tag, send window.print() and after printing, set the OVERFLOW tag to auto again.

My question: is this possible to do with JavaScript? If Yes, How can I achieve this goal?

Thanx in advance,

JMvV

[DeadEyes]

you might get better results with CSS print media type .

[penagate]

I agree that you should use a specific print stylesheet. But, for the sake of it, here's how you do it using Javascript:

var mydiv = document.getElementById('something');
mydiv.style.overflow = null;

[JMvVliet]

sure that works? I can't get it to work. Have done this:

sb.Append("var mydiv = document.getElementById('pnlData');"
sb.Append("mydiv.style.overflow = hidden;")

btnPrint.Attributes.Add("onclick", sb.ToString())

btnPrint is an ImageButton...

it gives me an error, and it posts back... and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

[JMvVliet]

by the way: read this about css:

(Authored by Kevin Venkiteswaran) Part of browsers' poor support for printing includes butchering content that is laid out with anything but position: static. This includes "simple" positioning such as relative and absolute. For example, Win/IE5.0 and Win/IE5.5 would show only the top-most onscreen portion of a <div> that was positioned absolute and had overflow: auto (a CSS setup to emulate HTML frames). Similarly, Mozilla 1.6 had similar problems. The solution was to change all position properties from fixed, absolute, etc. back to static

[penagate]

sure that works? I can't get it to work. Have done this:

sb.Append("var mydiv = document.getElementById('pnlData');"
sb.Append("mydiv.style.overflow = hidden;")

btnPrint.Attributes.Add("onclick", sb.ToString())

btnPrint is an ImageButton...

it gives me an error, and it posts back... and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

What language is that in?

[JMvVliet]

Oh, I'm sorry not to mention that: ASP.NET (VB.NET)...

[mendhak]

Could it be...

sb.Append("var mydiv = document.getElementById('pnlData');")

[JMvVliet]

Yeah, you're right, made a mistake in typing and copying the code... I've done it the right way .

Solved it another way, so I set this post to solved.

Thnx for all the replies.