Question

I have an html application running in IE6(yes it has to be 6 for the time being), currently I print a page/report of the application. This report is all html and just uses the browsers built in print functionality. It currently spans more that 1 page i.e. scrolls, and the printing functionality prints the whole page, even what is not visible.

The question I have, is it possible to print only the visible part of the page. So if the user scrolls, I only print what the user is currently seeing, and nothing else?

Answer 1

Not without a bit of trickery, I think.

You could try the following. I haven’t tried it out but it might work:

• Give the body and the HTML tag 100% height
• Give the body a “overflow: hidden”
• Put the contents of your page into a 100% wide, 100% tall DIV with overflow:auto
• Scroll to the desired position and click “print”

it might give you the visible portion only. No guarantees, though. If you try it, let me know how it works out.