Print the contents of a DIV

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Whats the best way to print the contents of a DIV

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Although  BC answer was the best to print a single page    But To print multiple pages of A4 size at same time with ctrl P following solution may help       media print  html        height 0px important      width 0px  important      margin  0px  important      padding  0px  important      min-height  0px  important      line-height  0px  important      overflow  visible  important      visibility  hidden           assing myPagesClass to every div you want to print on single separate A4 page     body  myPagesClass       z-index  100  important      visibility  visible  important      position  relative  important      display  block  important      background-color  lightgray  important      height  297mm  important      width  211mm  important      position  relative  important       padding  0px      top  0  important      left  0  important      margin  0  important      orphans  0 important      widows  0 important      overflow  visible  important      page-break-after  always      page      size  A4      margin  0mm       orphans  0 important      widows  0 important

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Just use PrintJS let printjs   document createElement  quot script quot    printjs src    quot https   printjs-4de6 kxcdn com print min js quot   document body appendChild printjs    printjs onload   function         printJS  id of div you want to print    html

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The accepted solution wasn t working  Chrome was printing a blank page because it wasn t loading the image in time  This approach works   Edit  It appears the accepted solution was modified after my post  Why the downvote  This solution works as well       function printDiv divName             var printContents   document getElementById divName  innerHTML          w   window open             w document write printContents           w document write   lt scr     ipt type  text javascript  gt      window onload   function     window print    window close            lt  sc     ript gt              w document close       necessary for IE  gt   10         w focus       necessary for IE  gt   10          return true

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I think there is a better solution  Make your div to print cover the entire document  but only when it s printed    media print        myDivToPrint           background-color  white          height  100           width  100           position  fixed          top  0          left  0          margin  0          padding  15px          font-size  14px          line-height  18px

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function printdiv printdivname        var headstr     lt html gt  lt head gt  lt title gt Booking Details lt  title gt  lt  head gt  lt body gt        var footstr     lt  body gt        var newstr   document getElementById printdivname  innerHTML      var oldstr   document body innerHTML      document body innerHTML   headstr newstr footstr      window print        document body innerHTML   oldstr      return false      This will print the div area you want and set the content back to as it was  printdivname is the div to be printed

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Open a new window Open the document object of the new window and write into it a simple document containing nothing but the div you ve got and necessary html header etc - you may also want to have the document pull in a stylesheet  depending on your content is Put a script in the new page to call window print   Trigger the script

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The best way to do it would be to submit the contents of the div to the server and open a new window where the server could put those contents into the new window   If that s not an option you can try to use a client-side language like javascript to hide everything on the page except that div and then print the page

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This is realy old post but here is one my update what I made using correct answer  My solution also use jQuery   Point of this is to use proper print view  include all stylesheets for the proper formatting and also to be supported in the most browsers   function PrintElem elem  title  offset           Title constructor     title   title       title   text           Offset for the print     offset   offset    0          Loading start     var dStart   Math round new Date   getTime   1000            html      html            i   0          Start building HTML     var HTML     lt html        if typeof   html attr  lang         undefined             HTML    lang      html attr  lang               if typeof   html attr  id         undefined             HTML    id      html attr  id               if typeof   html attr  xmlns         undefined             HTML    xmlns      html attr  xmlns                  Close HTML and start build HEAD     HTML    gt  lt head gt            Get all meta tags        head  gt  meta   each function            var  this     this                meta     lt meta            if typeof   this attr  charset         undefined                  meta    charset      this attr  charset                       if typeof   this attr  name         undefined                  meta    name      this attr  name                       if typeof   this attr  http-equiv         undefined                  meta    http-equiv      this attr  http-equiv                       if typeof   this attr  content         undefined                  meta    content      this attr  content                        meta      gt             HTML    meta          i            promise   done function                Insert title         HTML     lt title gt     title      lt  title gt                Let s pickup all CSS files for the formatting            head  gt  link rel  stylesheet     each function                HTML     lt link rel  stylesheet  href        this  attr  href          gt                i               promise   done function                   Print setup             HTML     lt style gt body display none   media print body display block    lt  style gt                    Finish HTML             HTML     lt  head gt  lt body gt                HTML     lt h1 class  text-center mb-3  gt     title      lt  h1 gt                HTML   elem html                HTML     lt  body gt  lt  html gt                    Open new window             var printWindow   window open      PRINT    height       window  height       width       window  width                    Append new window HTML             printWindow document write HTML                printWindow document close       necessary for IE  gt   10             printWindow focus       necessary for IE  gt   10   console log printWindow document                  Make sure that page is loaded correctly                  printWindow  on  load   function                                       setTimeout function                           Open print                     printWindow print                            Close on print                     setTimeout function                            printWindow close                            return true                         3                        Math round new Date   getTime   1000  - dStart  i offset                                           Later you simple need something like this     document  on  click     some-print   function         PrintElem   this    My Print Title        return false        Try it

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i used Bill Paetzke answer to print a div contain images but it didn t work with google chrome  i just needed to add this line myWindow onload function    to make it work and here is the full code   lt html gt   lt head gt       lt script type  text javascript  src  http   jqueryjs googlecode com files jquery-1 3 1 min js  gt   lt  script gt       lt script type  text javascript  gt          function PrintElem elem                Popup   elem  html                        function Popup data                var myWindow   window open      my div    height 400 width 600                myWindow document write   lt html gt  lt head gt  lt title gt my div lt  title gt                   optional stylesheet     myWindow document write   lt link rel  stylesheet  href  main css  type  text css    gt                 myWindow document write   lt  head gt  lt body  gt                 myWindow document write data               myWindow document write   lt  body gt  lt  html gt                 myWindow document close       necessary for IE  gt   10              myWindow onload function       necessary if the div contain images                  myWindow focus       necessary for IE  gt   10                 myWindow print                    myWindow close                                  lt  script gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt       lt div id  myDiv  gt          This will be printed           lt img src  image jpg   gt       lt  div gt       lt div gt          This will not be printed       lt  div gt       lt div id  anotherDiv  gt          Nor will this       lt  div gt       lt input type  button  value  Print Div  onclick  PrintElem   myDiv      gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt    also if someone just need to print a div with id he doesn t need to load jquery  here is pure javascript code to do this   lt html gt   lt head gt       lt script type  text javascript  gt          function PrintDiv id                var data document getElementById id  innerHTML              var myWindow   window open      my div    height 400 width 600                myWindow document write   lt html gt  lt head gt  lt title gt my div lt  title gt                   optional stylesheet     myWindow document write   lt link rel  stylesheet  href  main css  type  text css    gt                 myWindow document write   lt  head gt  lt body  gt                 myWindow document write data               myWindow document write   lt  body gt  lt  html gt                 myWindow document close       necessary for IE  gt   10              myWindow onload function       necessary if the div contain images                  myWindow focus       necessary for IE  gt   10                 myWindow print                    myWindow close                                  lt  script gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt       lt div id  myDiv  gt          This will be printed           lt img src  image jpg   gt       lt  div gt       lt div gt          This will not be printed       lt  div gt       lt div id  anotherDiv  gt          Nor will this       lt  div gt       lt input type  button  value  Print Div  onclick  PrintDiv  myDiv      gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt    i hope this can help someone

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Slight changes over earlier version - tested on CHROME  function PrintElem elem        var mywindow   window open      PRINT    height 400 width 600         mywindow document write   lt html gt  lt head gt  lt title gt     document title      lt  title gt         mywindow document write   lt  head gt  lt body  gt         mywindow document write   lt h1 gt     document title      lt  h1 gt         mywindow document write document getElementById elem  innerHTML       mywindow document write   lt  body gt  lt  html gt          mywindow document close       necessary for IE  gt   10     mywindow focus       necessary for IE  gt   10        mywindow print        mywindow close         return true

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I know this is an old question  but I solved this problem w jQuery    function printContents id        var contents         id  html         if      printDiv   length    0          var printDiv   null        printDiv   document createElement  div          printDiv setAttribute  id   printDiv          printDiv setAttribute  class   printable            printDiv  appendTo  body                   printDiv   html contents        window print             printDiv   remove        CSS     media print        non-printable   fancybox-outer   display  none         printable   printDiv            display  block           font-size  26pt

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Create a separate print stylesheet that hides all other elements except the content you want to print  Flag it using  media  print  when you load it    lt link rel  stylesheet  type  text css  media  print  href  print css    gt   This allows you to have a completely different stylesheet loaded for printouts   If you want to force the browser s print dialog to appear for the page  you can do it like this on load using JQuery     function     window print          or triggered off of any other event you want such as a user clicking a button

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The below code copies all relevant nodes that are targeted by the query selector  copies over their styles as seen on screen  since many parent elements used for targeting the css selectors will be missing  This causes a bit of lag if there are a lot of child nodes with a lot of styles   Ideally you d have a print style sheet ready  but this is for use cases where there s no print style sheet to be inserted and you wish to print as seen on screen   If you copy the below items in the browser console on this page it will print all the code snippets on this page    function                    copied from  https   stackoverflow com questions 19784064 set-javascript-computed-style-from-one-element-to-another         author Adi Darachi https   stackoverflow com users 2318881 adi-darachi             var copyComputedStyle   function from to           var computed style object   false            trying to figure out which style object we need to use depense on the browser support           so we try until we have one         computed style object   from currentStyle    document defaultView getComputedStyle from null              if the browser dose not support both methods we will return null         if  computed style object  return null               var stylePropertyValid   function name value                             checking that the value is not a undefined                 return typeof value      undefined   amp  amp                            checking that the value is not a object                         typeof value      object   amp  amp                            checking that the value is not a function                         typeof value      function   amp  amp                            checking that we dosent have empty string                         value length  gt  0  amp  amp                            checking that the property is not int index   happens on some browser                         value    parseInt value                             we iterating the computed style object and compy the style props and the values         for property in computed style object                          checking if the property and value we get are valid sinse browser have different implementations                 if stylePropertyValid property computed style object property                                            applying the style property to the target element                         to style property    computed style object property                                                       Copy over all relevant styles to preserve styling  work the way down the children tree      var buildChild   function masterList  childList            for c 0  c lt masterList length  c                 var master   masterList c              var child   childList c              copyComputedStyle master  child              if master children  amp  amp  master children length  gt  0                   buildChild master children  child children                                         select elements to print with query selector         var printSelection   function querySelector               Create an iframe to make sure everything is clean and ordered          var iframe   document createElement  iframe               Give it enough dimension so you can visually check when modifying          iframe width   document width          iframe height   document height             Add it to the current document to be sure it has the internal objects set up          document body append iframe            var nodes   document querySelectorAll querySelector           if  nodes    nodes length    0               console error  Printing Faillure  Nothing to print  Please check your querySelector               return                     for i 0  i  lt  nodes length  i                      Get the node you wish to print              var origNode   nodes i                   Clone it and all it s children             var node   origNode cloneNode true                   Copy the base style              copyComputedStyle origNode  node                if origNode children  amp  amp  origNode children length  gt  0                    buildChild origNode children  node children                                 Add the styled clone to the iframe  using contentWindow document since it seems the be the most widely supported version               iframe contentWindow document body append node                        Print the window         iframe contentWindow print                Give the browser a second to gather the data then remove the iframe          window setTimeout function    iframe parentNode removeChild iframe    1000         window printSelection   printSelection       printSelection   default prettyprint prettyprinted

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Same as best answer  just in case you need to print image as i did   In case you want to print image   function printElem elem                Popup jQuery elem  attr  src                function Popup data                 var mywindow   window open      my div    height 400 width 600            mywindow document write   lt html gt  lt head gt  lt title gt my div lt  title gt             mywindow document write   lt  head gt  lt body  gt             mywindow document write   lt img src    data      gt             mywindow document write   lt  body gt  lt  html gt              mywindow print            mywindow close             return true

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I modified  BillPaetski answer to use querySelector  add optional CSS  remove the forced H1 tag and make title optionally specified or pulled from window  It also doesn t auto-print any more and exposes internals so they can be switched out in wrapper function or as you like    The only two private vars are tmpWindow and tmpDoc although I believe title  css and elem access may vary it should be assumed all function arguments are private   Code   function PrintElem elem  title  css        var tmpWindow   window open      PRINT    height 400 width 600        var tmpDoc   tmpWindow document       title   title    document title      css   css             this setTitle   function newTitle            title   newTitle    document title              this setCSS   function newCSS            css   newCSS                    this basicHtml5   function innerHTML            return   lt  doctype html gt  lt html gt    innerHTML          lt  html gt                this htmlHead   function innerHTML            return   lt head gt    innerHTML          lt  head gt                this htmlTitle   function title            return   lt title gt    title          lt  title gt                this styleTag   function innerHTML            return   lt style gt    innerHTML          lt  style gt                this htmlBody   function innerHTML            return   lt body gt    innerHTML          lt  body gt                this build   function             tmpDoc write              this basicHtml5                  this htmlHead                      this htmlTitle title    this styleTag css                      this htmlBody                      document querySelector elem  innerHTML                                                    tmpDoc close       necessary for IE  gt   10             this print   function             tmpWindow focus       necessary for IE  gt   10           tmpWindow print            tmpWindow close                this build        return this      Usage   DOMPrinter   PrintElem   app-container    DOMPrinter print

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In Opera  try       print win document write   lt  body gt  lt  html gt         print win document close       This bit is important     print win print        print win close

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I think the solutions proposed so far have the following drawbacks    The CSS media query solutions assume there is only one div to print  The javascript solutions work only on certain browsers  Destroying the parent window content and recreating that creates a mess    I have improved on the solutions above  Here is something that I have tested that works really well with the following benefits    Works on all the browsers including IE  Chrome  Safari and firefox  Doesn t destroy and reload the parent window  Can print any number of DIV s in a page  Uses html templates to avoid error prone string concatenation     Key Points to note     Have to have a onload  window print    on the newly created window  Don t call targetwindow close   or targetwindow print   from the parent  Make sure you do targetwindow document close   and target focus   I m using jquery but you can do the same technique using plain javascript as well   You can see this in action here http   math tools table multiplication  You can print each table separately  by clicking on the print button on the box header      x000D   x000D   lt script id  print-header  type  text x-jquery-tmpl  gt  x000D      lt html gt  x000D      lt header gt  x000D          lt title gt Printing Para  num  lt  title gt  x000D          lt link rel  stylesheet  href  https   maxcdn bootstrapcdn com bootstrap 3 3 5 css bootstrap min css  gt  x000D          lt style gt  x000D            body   x000D              max-width  300px  x000D              x000D          lt  style gt  x000D      lt  header gt  x000D      lt body onload  window print    gt  x000D      lt h2 gt Printing Para  num   lt  h2 gt  x000D      lt h4 gt http   math tools lt  h4 gt  x000D   lt  script gt  x000D   lt script id  print-footer  type  text x-jquery-tmpl  gt  x000D       lt  body gt  x000D       lt  html gt  x000D   lt  script gt  x000D   lt script gt  x000D      printthis   click function     x000D     num     this  attr  data-id    x000D     w   window open    x000D     w document write  x000D                         print-header   html   replace   num   num     x000D                         para-    num  html     x000D                         print-footer   html    x000D                        x000D     w document close    x000D     w focus    x000D       w print    Don t do this otherwise chrome won t work  Look at the onload on the body of the newly created window  x000D        w close    Don t do this otherwise chrome won t work x000D      x000D   lt  script gt  x000D   lt script src  https   ajax googleapis com ajax libs jquery 2 1 1 jquery min js  gt  lt  script gt  x000D   x000D   lt a class  btn printthis  data-id  1  href     title  Print Para 1  gt  lt i class  fa fa-print  gt  lt  i gt  Print Para 1 lt  a gt  x000D   lt a class  btn printthis  data-id  2  href     title  Print Para 2  gt  lt i class  fa fa-print  gt  lt  i gt  Print Para 2 lt  a gt  x000D     x000D   lt p class  para  id  para-1  gt  x000D    Para 1   Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet  consectetur adipiscing elit  sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua  Ut enim ad minim veniam  quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat  Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur  Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident  sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum  lt  p gt  x000D     x000D   x000D   lt p class  para  id  para-2  gt  x000D    Para 2   Lorem 2 ipsum 2 dolor sit amet  consectetur adipiscing elit  sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua  Ut enim ad minim veniam  quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat  Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur  Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident  sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum  lt  p gt  x000D     x000D   x000D   x000D

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From here http   forums asp net t 1261525 aspx   lt html gt    lt head gt       lt script language  javascript  gt          function printdiv printpage                var headstr     lt html gt  lt head gt  lt title gt  lt  title gt  lt  head gt  lt body gt                var footstr     lt  body gt                var newstr   document all item printpage  innerHTML              var oldstr   document body innerHTML              document body innerHTML   headstr   newstr   footstr              window print                document body innerHTML   oldstr              return false                 lt  script gt       lt title gt div print lt  title gt   lt  head gt    lt body gt        HTML Page   Other content you wouldn t like to print      lt input name  b print  type  button  class  ipt  onClick  printdiv  div print     value   Print   gt        lt div id  div print  gt            lt h1 style  Color Red  gt The Div content which you want to print lt  h1 gt        lt  div gt        Other content you wouldn t like to print   Other content you wouldn t like to print  lt  body gt    lt  html gt

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Created something generic to use on any HTML element   HTMLElement prototype printMe   printMe  function printMe query                     var myframe   document createElement  IFRAME         myframe domain   document domain       myframe style position    absolute        myframe style top    -10000px        document body appendChild myframe        myframe contentDocument write this innerHTML         setTimeout function            myframe focus            myframe contentWindow print            myframe parentNode removeChild myframe      remove frame        3000      wait for images to load inside iframe      window focus        usage document getElementById  xyz   printMe    document getElementsByClassName  xyz   0  printMe      Hope this helps

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Although this has been said by  gabe  If you are using jQuery  you can use my printElement plugin   There s a sample here  and more information about the plugin here   The usage is rather straight forward  just grab an element with a jQuery selector and print it       myDiv   printElement      I hope it helps

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Here is an IFrame solution that works for IE and Chrome   function printHTML htmlString        var newIframe   document createElement  iframe        newIframe width    1px       newIframe height    1px       newIframe src    about blank           for IE wait for the IFrame to load so we can access contentWindow document body     newIframe onload   function             var script tag   newIframe contentWindow document createElement  script            script tag type    text javascript           var script   newIframe contentWindow document createTextNode  function Print    window focus    window print                 script tag appendChild script            newIframe contentWindow document body innerHTML   htmlString          newIframe contentWindow document body appendChild script tag               for chrome  a timeout for loading large amounts of content         setTimeout function                 newIframe contentWindow Print                newIframe contentWindow document body removeChild script tag               newIframe parentElement removeChild newIframe              200              document body appendChild newIframe

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Here is my jquery print plugin   function          fn printme   function          return this each function              var container     this            var hidden IFrame       lt iframe gt  lt  iframe gt    attr               width   1px               height   1px               display   none             appendTo container            var myIframe   hidden IFrame get 0            var script tag   myIframe contentWindow document createElement  script            script tag type    text javascript           script   myIframe contentWindow document createTextNode  function Print    window print                 script tag appendChild script            myIframe contentWindow document body innerHTML   container html            myIframe contentWindow document body appendChild script tag            myIframe contentWindow Print            hidden IFrame remove                   jQuery

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Note  This works with jQuery enabled sites only  It is very simple with this cool trick  It worked for me in Google Chrome browser  Firefox wont allow you to print to PDF without a plugin    First  open the inspector using  Ctrl   Shift   I     Cmd   Option   I    Type this code in the console      var jqchild   document createElement  script    jqchild src    https   cdnjs cloudflare com ajax libs jQuery print 1 5 1 jQuery print min js   document getElementsByTagName  body   0  appendChild jqchild       myDivWithStyles   print       Replace ID with yours    It launches the print dialog  Take a physical print or save it to PDF in chrome   Done    The logic is simple  We are creating a new script tag and attaching it in front of closing body tag  We injected a jQuery print extension into the HTML  Change myDivWithStyles with your own Div tag ID  Now it takes cares of preparing a printable virtual window   Try it on any site  Only caveat is sometimes trickily written CSS can cause missing of styles  But we get the content most of times

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If you want to have all the styles from the original document  including inline styles  you can use this approach    Copy the complete document Replace the body with the element your want to print    Implementation   class PrintUtil     static printDiv elementId        let printElement   document getElementById elementId       var printWindow   window open      PRINT        printWindow document write document documentElement innerHTML       setTimeout      gt       Needed for large documents       printWindow document body style margin    0 0         printWindow document body innerHTML   printElement outerHTML        printWindow document close       necessary for IE  gt   10       printWindow focus       necessary for IE  gt   10         printWindow print          printWindow close           1000

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Using Jquery  simply use this function    lt script gt  function printContent el   var restorepage      body   html    var printcontent           el  clone       body   empty   html printcontent   window print       body   html restorepage      lt  script gt    Your print button will look like this    lt button id  print  onclick  printContent  id name of your div      gt Print lt  button gt    Edit  If you DO have form data that you need to keep  clone won t copy that  so you ll just need to grab all the form data and replace it after restore as so    lt script gt  function printContent el   var restorepage      body   html    var printcontent           el  clone    var enteredtext       text   val       body   empty   html printcontent   window print       body   html restorepage       text   html enteredtext      lt  script gt   lt textarea id  text  gt  lt  textarea gt

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I authored a plugin to address this scenario  I was unhappy with the plugins out there  and set out to make something more extensive configurable   https   github com jasonday printThis

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