Print a div content using Jquery

None of the solutions above work perfectly.They either loses CSS or have to include/edit external CSS file. I found a perfect solution that will not lose your CSS nor you have to edit/add external CSS.

HTML:

<div id='printarea'>
    <p>This is a sample text for printing purpose.</p>
    <input type='button' id='btn' value='Print' onclick='printFunc();'>
</div>
<p>Do not print.</p

Javascript:

function printFunc() {
    var divToPrint = document.getElementById('printarea');
    var htmlToPrint = '' +
        '<style type="text/css">' +
        'table th, table td {' +
        'border:1px solid #000;' +
        'padding;0.5em;' +
        '}' +
        '</style>';
    htmlToPrint += divToPrint.outerHTML;
    newWin = window.open("");
    newWin.document.write("<h3 align='center'>Print Page</h3>");
    newWin.document.write(htmlToPrint);
    newWin.print();
    newWin.close();
    }

https://github.com/jasonday/printThis

$("#myID").printThis();

Great jQuery plugin to do exactly what you're after


Some jQuery research has failed, so I moved to JavaScript (thanks for your suggestion Anders).

And it is working well...

HTML

<div id='DivIdToPrint'>
    <p>This is a sample text for printing purpose.</p>
</div>
<p>Do not print.</p>
<input type='button' id='btn' value='Print' onclick='printDiv();'>

JavaScript

function printDiv() 
{

  var divToPrint=document.getElementById('DivIdToPrint');

  var newWin=window.open('','Print-Window');

  newWin.document.open();

  newWin.document.write('<html><body onload="window.print()">'+divToPrint.innerHTML+'</body></html>');

  newWin.document.close();

  setTimeout(function(){newWin.close();},10);

}

If you want to do this without an extra plugin (like printThis), I think this should work. The idea is to have a special div that will be printed, while everything else is hidden using CSS. This is easier to do if the div is a direct child of the body tag, so you will have to move whatever you want to print to a div like that. S So begin with creating a div with id print-me as a direct child to your body tag. Then use this code to print the div:

$("#btn").click(function () {
    //Copy the element you want to print to the print-me div.
    $("#printarea").clone().appendTo("#print-me");
    //Apply some styles to hide everything else while printing.
    $("body").addClass("printing");
    //Print the window.
    window.print();
    //Restore the styles.
    $("body").removeClass("printing");
    //Clear up the div.
    $("#print-me").empty();
});

The styles you need are these:

@media print {
    /* Hide everything in the body when printing... */
    body.printing * { display: none; }
    /* ...except our special div. */
    body.printing #print-me { display: block; }
}

@media screen {
    /* Hide the special layer from the screen. */
    #print-me { display: none; }
}

The reason why we should only apply the @print styles when the printing class is present is that the page should be printed as normally if the user prints the page by selecting File -> Print.

Tags:

Javascript

Html

Jquery

Printing

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