"Printer-friendly" control

Hi,

I'm trying to find a simple way to code a "Print this page" button.
Functionally, it would display a version of a given page without tne template, only the content.
I have two questions about this :

1 - How do i access to the page content (without template) programmatically?
2 - Is it too much to create a control for that? Would there be a simpler "client side" way of doing this?

Thank you,
F.

Hello F,

You can try using jquery print plugin.

plugins.jquery.com/.../printElement

The page is represented and build by controls. Each control is a presentation layer.

Another option is using WebClient to get byte array and return the current page HTML.

Regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Dear Ivan

Maybe this could be an idea for a user control

Drag a 'print this page' widget to the page, specify an img url and/or text) and pick which parts of the page should be printed. This sure would make the live of many of us easy - And sure would be a nice feature to see in Q2.

If you like the idea PITS-it and we can vote :-)

Markus

Hi Markus,

I logged your feature request and we are going to review it on our next planning meeting. Thanks for your suggestions.

Best wishes,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Something I did in 3.7 was create an alternate theme called "Print" and changed over to that theme whenever I used the query string "print".  I did this using a custom page class inheriting from the Sitefinity page class.  However, I can't figure out how to do something similar in this version.

Hello Ryan ,

In Sitefinity 4.1 SP2 you can add a code behind to each page ( which was not possible in 3.x edition) from page properties. You can create a base class that inherits from System.Web.UI.Page and implement your logic there.

Regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team