how do you print a textbox???

How would you go about just printing out what you have written in a text box? It's a multi line text box that can go on for a lot of pages I don't know how to set it up so the user can print it can anyone help me?
I do know how to print the whole screen but it only prints the form as you see it....

 

what programming language are you using?

 

If you want to allow your users to print the contents of a large textbox (ie. <textarea> element) I would (using JavaScript) do the following:

1. Read the value of the <textarea> element.

2. Open a new page/window and write the contents of the <textarea> element into a DIV element, perhaps replacing CRLF with <br> in order to preserve line breaks. By not constraining the text (ie. in a free flowing DIV) you should not suffer issues with text being cropped when printed - printer friendly.

3. Give your user a Print Window link as you would have doen before to print the page.