http://www.tutorialhelpdesk.com/forum/ Tutorialhelpdesk programming forums en Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:05:10 +0000 http://www.tutorialhelpdesk.com/forum/topic/check-to-make-sure-a-page-has-fully-loaded-first-before-printing-it#post-10 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:20:24 +0000 thdadmin 10@http://www.tutorialhelpdesk.com/forum/ <p>The following javscript code helps you determine if the page you are trying to print has loaded completely. This prevents users from printing partialy loaded pages. This problem occurs when a visitor tries to print a page and a page suitable for printing is generated by the browser.<br /> <strong>This is the button that upon click prints the page:</strong><br /> <pre><code>&lt;form name=&quot;xform&quot;&gt;&lt;input type=&quot;button&quot; value=&quot;print&quot; onclick=&quot;self.print()&quot;&gt;&lt;/form&gt;</code></pre> <p><strong>This is the code that check to see if the page has loaded:</strong><br /> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;script language=&quot;javascript&quot;&gt; var doneloading = false; function printpage() { if(doneloading) { window.print(); } else { alert(&#39;page is not done loading yet! please wait and try again.&#39;) } } function finishloading() { doneloading=true; } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; .. ... &lt;a href=&quot;printpage()&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;print page&quot; src=&quot;images/button-image.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; ... ..</code></pre>