[RESOLVED] PHP and JavaScript; print or not to print

[nogeekyet]

My page is generated using php and mysql. To print it, I use javascript. The print works fine but I don't want to print "Page 1 of 1" which shows up automatically as the first line, nor do I want to print the link, i.e.

http://localhost/DE723/printCert1/doit.php                                  6/1/2011

which prints automatically as the last line on the page together with the date. How do I disable this?

[bradgrafelman]

nogeekyet wrote:

How do I disable this?

Look in your internet browser's print settings and see if it allows you to disable the header/footer information.

Oh, did you mean how can you use a scripting language to hijack your user's browser printing preferences? You can't.

[nogeekyet]

Got it. Thank you. In case somebody else wants to know:

This is for IE; I have not checked other browsers.

1. Open the "printer" drop-down menu;
2. Click on "Page Setup";
3. Clear out the fields for Header and footer;
4. Click "OK";
   5 do your printing;