Hello,
A while back I created
a lightbox plugin using jQuery that would load
a url specified in
a link into
a lightbox. The code is really simple:
$('.readmore').each(function(i){
$(this).popup();
});
and the link would look like this:
<a class='readmore' href='view-details.php?Id=11'>TJ Kirchner</a>
The plugin could also accept arguments for width, height,
a different url, and more data to pass through.
The problem I'm facing right now is printing the lightbox. I set it up so that the lightbox has
a print button at the top of the box. That link would
open up
a new
window and print that
window. This is all being controlled by the lightbox plugin. Here's what that code looks like:
$('.printBtn').bind('click',function() {
var url = options.url + ( ( options.url.indexOf('?') < 0 && options.data != "" ) ? '?' : '&' ) + options.data;
var thePopup =
window.open( url, "Member Listing", "menubar=0,location=0,height=700,width=700" );
thePopup.print();
});
The problem is the script doesn't seem to be waiting until the
window loads. It wants to print the moment the
window appears. As
a result, if I click "cancel" to the print dialog box, it'll popup again and again until the
window loads. The first time I tried printing I got
a blank page. That might be because the
window didn't finish load.
I need to find
a way to alter the previous code block to wait until the
window loads and then print. I feel like there should be an easy way to do this, but I haven't found it yet. Either that, or I need to find
a better way to
open a popup
window and print from the lightbox script in the parent
window, without alternating the webpage code in the popup
window.
