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Creating a Printer Version – Grab Method
Jim Fletcher
Background
Many methods exist to creating printer versions. A few of these include:
- creating a separate HTML page for every page on your website that is formatted to print well.
- using a database to hold the page content and display the content via either the normal template or the stripped-down printer template.
- including a header.php file above your content and footer.php below your content.
The method I will describe here is different from the usual
methods and is used on websites like CNN.
The basic idea is to put a hidden html comment tag at the
beginning of the main content of your webpage, and another
hidden html comment tag at the end of your content.
<!--startclickprintinclude--> The content you want to print goes here. <!--endclickprintinclude-->
The Printer Version script will open the webpage, grab
only that which is between the hidden tags, and display
it within the Printer Version template.
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| Comments: | ||
| RE: Interesting, but too complex IMHO | Scott | 08/16/04 19:54 |
| CSS is the apropriate solution! | Fernando Wendt | 08/13/04 12:51 |
| RE: using variable | smt | 07/29/04 03:32 |
| Come on...too much work when you can use CSS | Big Mac Attack | 07/10/04 19:05 |
| using variable | BIGmrC | 06/03/04 07:49 |
| Printer version? CSS! | Chris Erik Haugli | 04/16/04 02:40 |
| RE: Interesting, but too complex IMHO | Jim Fletcher | 04/14/04 18:59 |
| Interesting, but too complex IMHO | Tom | 04/09/04 09:45 |
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