Printing the contents of a <rich:modalPanel />?

Question

Attempting to print the contents of a <rich:modalPanel /> in my application results in a complete mess on the printed page.

The complete HTML underlying the <rich:modalPanel /> appears on the printed page, but completely faded out (as it sort of appears on screen). And somewhere on that page, is the <rich:modalPanel /> content itself - what the user actually wanted to print.

The expected behavior is to just print the <rich:modalPanel /> content, occupying the entire printed page. How would I configure this behavior, or what alternative media (media="print") styles do I need to include?

Answer 1

I had the same problem and based on the HTML Code this will not be possible out of the box. I solved the problem by using http://plugins.jquery.com/project/printElement which is jQuery based function that allows to print single HTML Code Elements.

Maybe this will help you, too.

regards Arno