How to print a page using RJS

[Manisha Tripathy]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to add an option to print my view, i.e the display webpage
in my Rails application.At present I am using HTML DOM for that but I
want to do that in ruby.Following some online tutorials, I am trying to
use rjs for that. the codes are some thing like this

# view.rhtml

<%=link_to_remote ("Print Page", :url => {:action => :print})%><br />

# doc.rjs

page.hide 'header'
page.hide 'header2'

page.<<'javascript:window.open();'

page.show 'header'
page.show 'header2'

Can anyone give some idea as to why this is not working?I have very less
knowledge in this.Is there any other way to do the same?
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[Rakoth]

Hi, Manisha Tripathy.

You can solve this problem by creating special css for printer,

<%= stylesheet_link_tag "print_style", :media => "print" %>

and in print_style.css

#header{
display:none;
}
and so on..

On Jun 4, 1:41 pm, Manisha Tripathy <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>
wrote:

[Manisha Tripathy]

Ok but in that case , I think we will not be using rjs file. right?
Can you just explain a bit more please.

Rakoth wrote:
> Hi, Manisha Tripathy.
>
> You can solve this problem by creating special css for printer,
>
> <%= stylesheet_link_tag "print_style", :media => "print" %>
>
> and in print_style.css
>
> #header{
> display:none;
> }
> and so on..
>
> On Jun 4, 1:41�pm, Manisha Tripathy <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>

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[Rakoth]

Yes, in this case you just add css tag to page that you want to print.
This css will be used when you run print command in your browser,
becouse parameter :media set to "print".
And you can specify look of a page when printed using the appropriate
styles, for exalple to hide
element with id="header" or with class="navigation" use

#header, .navigation{
display:none;
}

Try to find more information on this topic using google query "css
media print"

forgive me my english, I`m using google translate.


On Jun 4, 4:30 pm, Manisha Tripathy <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>
wrote: