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jQuery.print.js
// Create a jquery plugin that prints the given element.
jQuery.fn.print = function(){
// NOTE: We are trimming the jQuery collection down to the
// first element in the collection.
if (this.size() > 1){
this.eq( 0 ).print();
return;
} else if (!this.size()){
return;
}
// ASSERT: At this point, we know that the current jQuery
// collection (as defined by THIS), contains only one
// printable element.
// Create a random name for the print frame.
var strFrameName = ("printer-" + (new Date()).getTime());
// Create an iFrame with the new name.
var jFrame = $( "<iframe name='" + strFrameName + "'>" );
// Hide the frame (sort of) and attach to the body.
jFrame
.css( "width", "1px" )
.css( "height", "1px" )
.css( "position", "absolute" )
.css( "left", "-9999px" )
.appendTo( $( "body:first" ) )
;
// Get a FRAMES reference to the new frame.
var objFrame = window.frames[ strFrameName ];
// Get a reference to the DOM in the new frame.
var objDoc = objFrame.document;
// Grab all the style tags and copy to the new
// document so that we capture look and feel of
// the current document.
// Create a temp document DIV to hold the style tags.
// This is the only way I could find to get the style
// tags into IE.
var jStyleDiv = $( "<div>" ).append(
$( "style" ).clone()
);
// Write the HTML for the document. In this, we will
// write out the HTML of the current element.
objDoc.open();
objDoc.write( "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\">" );
objDoc.write( "<html>" );
objDoc.write( "<body>" );
objDoc.write( "<head>" );
objDoc.write( "<title>" );
objDoc.write( document.title );
objDoc.write( "</title>" );
objDoc.write( jStyleDiv.html() );
objDoc.write( "</head>" );
objDoc.write( this.html() );
objDoc.write( "</body>" );
objDoc.write( "</html>" );
objDoc.close();
// Print the document.
objFrame.focus();
objFrame.print();
// Have the frame remove itself in about a minute so that
// we don't build up too many of these frames.
setTimeout(
function(){
jFrame.remove();
},
(60 * 1000)
);
}
@newtonanbarasu
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Hi ,
am printing bootstrap modal
I specified width and height on @media print { }
but its showing same modal size (991px) on printing
how to rectify this ??

@amritlamsal81
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how to use

@subashdbc
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This seems to be not working with iPad, how to fix it?
Thanks

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