javascriptjqueryprintthis

How to print a div on a click of a button?

I'm using printThis by Jason day and on its config page it shows that you can trigger the plugin using:

$('selector').printThis();

Now when I do that I have noticed that this trigger is showing print box on Page load instead of clicking on a button.

How do I use this plugin and trigger it on a button instead of a default page load?

Usage: https://jasonday.github.io/printThis/

Solution

  • So in order to do that you need to add some listener for the click event of your button.

    Assume this is your HTML:

    <button id="myButton">Button</button>

<div id="myPrintableContent">
  Some content to print
</div>

    And this is your javascript code:

    $(document).ready(function() {
  $('#myButton').on('click', function () {
    $('#myPrintableContent').printThis();
  });
});