jQuery Print Element 1.2

jQuery Print Element 1.2

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Copyright (c) 2009 Erik Zaadi

Inspired by PrintArea and this stackoverflow comment

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Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

Usage:

$('SelectorToPrint').printElement();

Options:

printMode

Type: String

Default: ‘iframe’

Description: Sets wether the plugins behavior is to open a popup of the element to print before printing, or to create a hidden iframe. Possible values: ‘iframe’ | ‘popup’

The only mode currently available in Chrome and Opera is popup mode

Example

$("selector").printElement({printMode:'popup'});

pageTitle

Type: String

Default: ”

Description: Print Page Title (name of the file sent to the printer)

Example

$("selector").printElement({pageTitle:'thisWillBeTheNameInThePrintersLog.html'});

overrideElementCSS

Type: Array of Strings | Array of $.fn.printElement.cssElement | Boolean

Default: null

Description: Can be one of the following 3 options:

1 : boolean (pass true for stripping all css linked)

2 : array of $.fn.printElement.cssElement (s)

3 : array of strings with paths to alternate css files (optimized for print)

Example

$("selector").printElement(
            {
            overrideElementCSS:[
		'thisWillBeTheCSSUsed.css',
		{ href:'thisWillBeTheCSSUsedAsWell.css',media:'print'}]
            });

printBodyOptions

Type: Object

Default: {styleToAdd: ‘padding:10px;margin:10px;’, classNameToAdd: ”}

Description: Contains:

styleToAdd : style attributes to add to the body of print document

classNameToAdd : css class to add to the body of print document

Example

$("selector").printElement(
            {
            printBodyOptions:
            {
            styleToAdd:'padding:10px;margin:10px;color:#FFFFFF !important;',
            classNameToAdd : 'thisWillBeTheClassUsedAsWell'
            }
            });

leaveOpen

Type: Boolean

Default: false

Description: in case of popup, determines if the print page will remain open or not

In Opera, this will be left open by default

Example

$("selector").printElement(
            {
            leaveOpen:true,
            printMode:'popup'
            });

iframeElementOptions

Type: Object

Default: styleToAdd :border:none;position:absolute;width:0px;height:0px;bottom:0px;left:0px;}

Description: Contains:

styleToAdd : style attributes to add to the iframe element

classNameToAdd : css class to add to the iframe element

Example

$("selector").printElement(
            {
            iframeElementOptions:
            {
            styleToAdd:'position:absolute;width:0px;height:0px;bottom:0px;',
            classNameToAdd : 'thisWillBeTheClassUsedAsWell'
            }
            });