If I have a form field of size 30, and I type 40 characters into it and then try to print, only the first 30 characters will show up on the print-out. It sounds like a common problem that would have lots of workarounds, but I can't find anything about it in my searching. Any ideas?
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Greg K posted this at 20:42—5th March 2008.
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What exactly are you wanting to work around? You are telling to only display 30 characters and that is what it is doing.
The only thing I can think of is somehow you have a "Print" button that calls javascript which changes the properties on the form fields, issues a print, then changes them back, but not sure if SIZE is something you can modify that way... Be interesting to see if people have a solution.
The better one I can think of is have print actually submit to a page specifically to be printed.
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IanD posted this at 14:41—6th March 2008.
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I'm telling it to only display 30 characters because on a webpage you can scroll. You can't scroll on a print-out. It seems pretty obtuse for the browser to not handle that gracefully.
Submitting to a new page sounds like a good idea.
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Greg K posted this at 16:28—6th March 2008.
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In general forms are designed to be filled out, not printed. They are for input, not output.
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JeevesBond posted this at 13:53—12th March 2008.
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Greg is right, although it is a little weird that browsers don't print as shown on the screen. One possibility is to have the user fill out the form, submit it, then output a nicely formatted HTML page for printing.
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