Print iframe in IE

Question

I have a button that loads a report for print into an "invisible" iframe inside a div and prints that iframe; the user presses a button to print the report (contained on a different page) without changing pages or any visual disruption aside from the print dialog. It works in Chrome and Firefox but not IE. In IE the parent page is printed in full, and a tiny messed up iframe is inserted at the bottom of the page (where I'm loading the iframe). Here's the empty div without content, it's there so I have an ID tagged place to style and stick content with Javascript: ```

``` Here's the javascript function, onClick of my button this function fires and inserts my print page into an iframe inside printerDiv, after loading this page it prints: ``` function printPage(url) { var div = document.getElementById("printerDiv"); div.innerHTML = ''; } ``` Here's the CSS hiding the div. I'm using absolute pos…

Accepted Answer

you can try something like this:

use something like jQuery's .load() to put the report inside the `#printerDiv` and differenciate it with CSS

on your CSS you have

```
#printerDiv{display:none;}
@media print{
    body *{display:none;}
    #printerDiv{display:block;height:100%;width:100%}
}
```

and the print button javascript

```
$('#printerDiv').empty().load(url, function(){
        window.print();
    }); //or whatever library/pure js you like
```

Print iframe in IE

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