README.md

jQuery Print Plugin

jQuery.print is a plugin for printing specific parts of a page

Usage

Include it in your HTML after importing jQuery, like:

	<script type="text/JavaScript" src="path/to/jquery.print.js" />

Use it like:

	$("#myElementId").print(/*options*/);

or

	$.print("#myElementId" /*, options*/);

You can submit the options object like:

	$("#myElementId").print({
        	globalStyles: true,
        	mediaPrint: false,
        	stylesheet: null,
        	noPrintSelector: ".no-print",
        	iframe: true,
        	append: null,
        	prepend: null,
        	manuallyCopyFormValues: true,
        	deferred: $.Deferred(),
        	timeout: 250
	});

Currently this plugin supports the following options:

####globalStyles

• Default: true
• Acceptable-Values: Boolean
• Function: Whether or not the styles from the parent document should be included

####mediaPrint

• Default: false
• Acceptable-Values: Boolean
• Function: Whether or not link tags with media='print' should be included; Over-riden by the globalStyles option

####stylesheet

• Default: null
• Acceptable-Values: URL-string
• Function: URL of an external stylesheet to be included

####noPrintSelector

• Default: ".no-print"
• Acceptable-Values: Any valid jQuery-selector
• Function: A selector for the items that are to be excluded from printing

####iframe

• Default: true, creates a hidden iframe if no-vaild iframe selector is passed
• Acceptable-Values: Any valid jQuery-selector or Boolean
• Function: Whether to print from an iframe instead of a pop-up window; can take the jQuery-selector of an existing iframe as value

####append/prepend

• Default: null
• Acceptable-Values: Any valid jQuery-selector or HTML-text
• Function: Adds custom HTML before (prepend) or after (append) the selected content

####manuallyCopyFormValues

• Default: true
• Acceptable-Values: Boolean
• Function: Should it copy user-updated form input values onto the printed markup (this is done by manually iterating over each form element)

####deferred

• Default: $.Deferred()
• Acceptable-Values: Any valid jQuery.Deferred object
• Function: A jQuery.Deferred object that is resolved once the print function is called

####timeout

• Default: 250
• Acceptable-Values: Time in Milliseconds for setTimeout
• Function: To change the amount of time to wait for the content, etc to load before printing the element from the new window/iframe created

Tested with

jQuery

• jQuery v. 1.7.2
• jQuery v. 1.9.1

Browsers

• Google Chrome - v 20, 26
• Internet Explorer - v 10

License

CC-BY.

Demo

jQuery.print/demo

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