The following lines of code create an html page in a browser popup and then prints the popup for the user:

function printPage(htmlPage)
{
   var w = window.open("about:blank");
   w.document.write(htmlPage);
   w.print();
}

This code successfully opens a print dialog in both Firefox and Chrome. However, in IE, no print dialog is displayed. Any suggestions?

I've also tried closing the popup after calling print(), as others have suggested fixes the issue:

function printPage(htmlPage)
{
   var w = window.open("about:blank");
   w.document.write(htmlPage);
   w.print();
   w.close();
}

To no avail.

The following lines of code create an html page in a browser popup and then prints the popup for the user:

function printPage(htmlPage)
{
   var w = window.open("about:blank");
   w.document.write(htmlPage);
   w.print();
}

This code successfully opens a print dialog in both Firefox and Chrome. However, in IE, no print dialog is displayed. Any suggestions?

I've also tried closing the popup after calling print(), as others have suggested fixes the issue:

function printPage(htmlPage)
{
   var w = window.open("about:blank");
   w.document.write(htmlPage);
   w.print();
   w.close();
}

To no avail.

• javascript
• html
• printing

• What did the Developer Console tell you? – Lightness Races in Orbit Commented Sep 9, 2011 at 14:10
• Weird; on IE8 the function exists under w and no error is thrown when invoking it, but nothing happens. – Lightness Races in Orbit Commented Sep 9, 2011 at 14:20

1 Answer 1

close() the document before you try to print().

function printPage(htmlPage) 
{ 
   var w = window.open("about:blank"); 
   w.document.write(htmlPage);
   w.document.close();
   w.print(); 
} 

Works in IE9.