jQuery printing plugin; print specific elements on a page – printThis
In this post I am going to share simple jQuery plugin which help you to print any html page or specific content or element of page just one click. This plugin is loaded lot’s of feature which help you to customize the printing methods and other things.
Features:
- Print specific & multiple DOM elements
- Preserve page CSS/styling
** or add new CSS; the world is your oyster! - Preserve form entries
- Canvas support
Libraries
Load the jQuery and printThis JS Library on Page.
Basic Example
use the very basic method the print selected element.
$('selector').printThis();
Advanced Features:
$('#kitty-one, #kitty-two, #kitty-three').printThis({
importCSS: false,
loadCSS: "",
header: "Look at all of my kitties!
"
});
header & footer
$('#mySelector').printThis({
header: "Amazing header
"
});
$('#mySelector').printThis({
footer: $('.hidden-print-header-content')
});
Here are the list of options you can use to customize the plugins.
$("#mySelector").printThis({
debug: false, // show the iframe for debugging
importCSS: true, // import parent page css
importStyle: false, // import style tags
printContainer: true, // print outer container/$.selector
loadCSS: "", // path to additional css file - use an array [] for multiple
pageTitle: "", // add title to print page
removeInline: false, // remove inline styles from print elements
removeInlineSelector: "*", // custom selectors to filter inline styles. removeInline must be true
printDelay: 333, // variable print delay
header: null, // prefix to html
footer: null, // postfix to html
base: false, // preserve the BASE tag or accept a string for the URL
formValues: true, // preserve input/form values
canvas: false, // copy canvas content
doctypeString: '...', // enter a different doctype for older markup
removeScripts: false, // remove script tags from print content
copyTagClasses: false, // copy classes from the html & body tag
beforePrintEvent: null, // function for printEvent in iframe
beforePrint: null, // function called before iframe is filled
afterPrint: null // function called before iframe is removed
});
See live demo and download source code.
DEMO | DOWNLOAD
This awesome plugin is developed by tameemsafi. Visit their official github repository for more information and follow for future updates.