print preview in a popup

shawnrummel

I am a newby with JQuery and am trying to figure out how to create a print preview using the Table Tools plugins 'Print' functionality. As is the print functionality removes non-printing elements. I have a requirement to display that same representation in a pop-up. If I just use DOM manipulation I only get the first page of my dataTable. I would like the print preview in the pop-up to show all results.

allan

Currently no - TableTools does not support this functionality. One option might be to modify TableTools to clone the table node and insert that into a new document, but its not something it does at the moment.

Allan

shawnrummel

I was able to get this most of the way completed before my requirement changed. I extended the Print click functionality and used the jqprint plugin ( which I had to modify a bit for my tastes and IE preview capability. Here is the code

[code]
function tablePrint(tableElement, tableId){

var oSetDT = tableElement.s.dt;
var oSetPrint = tableElement.s.print;

tableElement.s.print.saveStart = oSetDT._iDisplayStart;
tableElement.s.print.saveLength = oSetDT._iDisplayLength;

oSetDT._iDisplayStart = 0;
oSetDT._iDisplayLength = -1;
oSetDT.oApi._fnCalculateEnd( oSetDT );
oSetDT.oApi._fnDraw( oSetDT );

var tableToPrint = $('#'+tableId);
tableToPrint.jqprint();
$('#printFrame').hide();

oSetDT._iDisplayStart = oSetPrint.saveStart;
oSetDT._iDisplayLength = oSetPrint.saveLength;
oSetDT.oApi._fnCalculateEnd( oSetDT );
oSetDT.oApi._fnDraw( oSetDT );

}
[/code]
I am now working on getting Headers and Footers included.