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Ctrl-P will invoke the print dialogue.
In JavaScript the print() function works in Netscape Navigator 4+ and Internet Explorer 5 beta 2+.
Someone (I forget who) sent me the following VBScript/ActiveX code that is supposed to work in Internet Explorer 3 and Internet Explorer 4:
<script language="JavaScript"><!-- DA = (document.all) ? 1 : 0 //window.onerror=handle_error function handle_error() { alert("\nNothing was printed. \n\nIf you do want to print this page, then\nclick on the printer icon in the toolbar above.") // to cancel the script error warning return true; } //--></script> <form> <input type="button" value="Print Page" onClick="window.print();"> </form> <script language="VBScript"> sub window_onunload on error resume next ' Just tidy up when we leave to be sure we aren't ' keeping instances of the web-browser control in memory set WB = nothing end sub sub print OLECMDID_PRINT = 6 OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER = 2 OLECMDEXECOPT_PROMPTUSER = 1 on error resume next 'Internet Explorer 4 object has different command structure if DA then call WB.ExecWB(OLECMDID_PRINT, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER) else call WB.IOleCommandTarget.Exec(OLECMDID_PRINT ,OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER,"","") end if if err.number <> 0 then if DA then ' Internet Explorer 4 they probably cancelled alert "Nothing Printed :" & err.number & " : " & err.description else handle_error ' ie3x give alternate instructions end if end if end sub 'This will be interpreted during loading. 'It will write out the correct webbrowser object depending 'on the browser version. To be sure it works, make sure you 'include this script block in between the body tags. if DA then 'this must be Internet Explorer 4 or greater wbvers="8856F961-340A-11D0-A96B-00C04FD705A2" else 'this must be Internet Explorer 3.x wbvers="EAB22AC3-30C1-11CF-A7EB-0000C05BAE0B" end if document.write "<OBJECT ID=""WB"" WIDTH=0 HEIGHT=0 CLASSID=""CLSID:" document.write wbvers & """> </OBJECT>" </script>