Click to open & print a page?

I'm working on some simple printer-friendly pages for a site and, when a user clicks on the "Printer Friendly" icon, would like the new page to open the print dialog box automatically when it opens up (as if they'd hit File > Print themselves).

What code would I need to implement to enable that type of auto-printing?

m19

 

What language are you writing? HTML?
If so, I'm not sure there is an auto-print function..hm.. I'll look around.
Also, it is likely you'll need to build your "print friendly" page for your users. There may be a way to generate it, but if you want it to look really tidy, you might wanna just pop the text into notepad and straighten it up and then save as a .txt file.

This will also take care of any compatibility problems you might run across if you save it as .doc.

Just some thoughts.

 

in the page put
<script language="Javascript1.2">
<!--

function printWindow(){
browserVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion)
if (browserVersion >= 4) window.print()
}

// -->


</script>
have a link that says PRINT THIS PAGE
<a href="javascriptrintWindow()">Print This Page</a>