Print Div Content Using JavaScript

Rakesh S S

4.33/5 (13 votes)

Dec 4, 2012

CPOL

302418

JavaScript to print Div content.

Introduction

This is a small trick which I want to share with you all where instead of printing an entire window we can print a section from the page.

Using the code

On the click of a button I have called JavaScript printDiv which will print the first DIV content.

Please refer to the below code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title>Untitled Page</title>

    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
        function printDiv(divID) {
            //Get the HTML of div
            var divElements = document.getElementById(divID).innerHTML;
            //Get the HTML of whole page
            var oldPage = document.body.innerHTML;

            //Reset the page's HTML with div's HTML only
            document.body.innerHTML = 
              "<html><head><title></title></head><body>" + 
              divElements + "</body>";

            //Print Page
            window.print();

            //Restore orignal HTML
            document.body.innerHTML = oldPage;

          
        }
    </script>

</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div id="printablediv" style="width: 100%; background-color: Blue; height: 200px">
        Print me I am in 1st Div
    </div>
    <div id="donotprintdiv" style="width: 100%; background-color: Gray; height: 200px">
        I am not going to print
    </div>
    <input type="button" value="Print 1st Div" onclick="javascript:printDiv('printablediv')" />
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Points of Interest

This trick is very basic but nevertheless very effective.

History

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