window print not working in IE

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I am doing something like this in javascript to print a section of my page on click of a link  function printDiv      var divToPrint   document getElementById  printArea     var newWin   window open     newWin document write divToPrint innerHTML    newWin print     newWin close        It works great in Firefox but not in IE   Could someone please help

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I am also facing this problem   Problem in IE is      newWin document write divToPrint innerHTML    when we remove this line print function in IE is working  but again problem still exist about the content of page   You can open the page using window open  and write the content in that page  then print function will work in IE This is alternate solution   Best luck    Pratik

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The way we typically handle printing is to just open the new window with everything in it that needs to be sent to the printer   Then we have the user actually click on their browsers Print button   This has always been acceptable in the past  and it sidesteps the security restrictions that Chilln is talking about

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I ve had this problem before  and the solution is simply to call window print   in IE  as opposed to calling print from the window instance   function printPage htmlPage                var w   window open  about blank            w document write htmlPage           if  navigator appName     Microsoft Internet Explorer   window print            else w print

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Add newWin document close     like so   function printDiv        var divToPrint   document getElementById  printArea       var newWin   window open       newWin document write divToPrint innerHTML      newWin document close       newWin print       newWin close        This makes IE happy  HTH  -Ted

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Add these lines after newWin document write divToPrint innerHTML   newWin document close    newWin focus    newWin print    newWin close      Then print function will work in all browser

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lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html gt   lt head id  head  gt   lt meta http-equiv  X-UA-Compatible  content  IE 9  IE 8  IE 7  IE EDGE    gt      lt  -- saved from url  0023 http   www contoso com  -- gt     lt link rel  stylesheet  type  text css  href  style css    gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt   lt div gt     lt div gt      Do not print    lt  div gt     lt div id  printable  style  background-color  pink  gt      Print this div    lt  div gt     lt button onClick  printdiv     gt Print Div lt  button gt   lt  div gt   lt  body gt   lt script gt    function printdiv           var printContents   document getElementById  printable   innerHTML    var head   document getElementById  head   innerHTML      var popupWin   window open       blank      var popupWin   window open  print html    blank      popupWin document open      popupWin document write       lt html gt     lt head gt   head   lt  head gt     lt body onload  window print    gt       lt div id  printable  gt     printContents     lt  div gt     lt  body gt     lt  html gt       popupWin document close     return false      lt  script gt   lt  html gt

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Just to add some additional information  In IE 11  using merely  window open      causes  window document   to be undefined  To resolve this  use  window open  null    blank      This will also work correctly in Chrome  Firefox and Safari   I don t have enough reputation to comment  so had to create an answer

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function printDiv         var divToPrint   document getElementById  printArea        newWin  window open        newWin document write divToPrint innerHTML       newWin location reload        newWin focus        newWin print        newWin close

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I am not sure but i think it occurs because of the security rules of the InternetExplorer     If you call a function like print   it asks the user manually if he wants to permit active scripting  if he clicks on the yellow bar and selects  Yes   the print dialog appears  If you click  No  or just don t do anything it is not executing the parts which are considered as active scripting or other security relevant javascript functions   In your example the window is opened then print   is called  confirmation bar pops up  nothing is selected  in fact nothing can be selected due to the short time   newWin close   is called  window closes   You should try adding the page to the trusted sites in InternetExplorer or change security settings   There may be a way of handling the security policies in the javascript itself but i don t know much about InternetExplorer Security Policies   Hope this helps

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function functionname          var divToPrint   document getElementById  divid        newWin  window open        newWin document write divToPrint innerHTML       newWin location reload        newWin focus        newWin print        newWin close

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For Firefox use  iframewin print     for IE use  iframedocument execCommand  print   false  null     see also Unable to print an iframe on IE using JavaScript  prints parent page instead

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Just wait some time before closing the window   if  navigator appName     Microsoft Internet Explorer         newWin close      else       window setTimeout function    newWin close     3000

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add checking condition for onload  if  newWinObj onload        newWinObj onload   function             newWinObj print            newWinObj close             else       newWinObj print        newWinObj close

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I was told to do document close after document write  I dont see how or why but this caused my script to wait until I closed the print dialog before it ran my window close   var printContent   document getElementbyId  wrapper   innerHTML  var disp setting  toolbar no location no directories no menubar no  scrollbars no width 600  height 825  left 100  top 25  var printWindow   window open       disp setting   printWindow document write printContent   printWindow document close    printWindow focus    printWindow print     printWindow close

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Close the window only when it is not IE   function printDiv      var divToPrint   document getElementById  printArea     var newWin  window open     newWin document write divToPrint innerHTML    newWin print     if  navigator appName     Microsoft Internet Explorer   newWin window close

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This worked for me  it works in firefox  ie and chrome       var content    This is a test Message        var contentHtml               lt div gt  lt b gt             TestReport             lt button style  float right  margin-right 10px              id  printButton  onclick  printDocument    gt Print lt  button gt  lt  div gt            content       join           var printWindow   window open         printWindow document write   lt  DOCTYPE HTML gt  lt html gt  lt head lt title gt Reports lt  title gt              lt script gt function printDocument                window focus               window print               window close                             lt  script gt          printWindow document write  stylesheet link here         printWindow document write   lt  head gt  lt body gt         printWindow document write contentHtml       printWindow document write   lt  body gt         printWindow document write   lt  html gt         printWindow document close

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