What event is fired when window.print() is called?

Question

Hi all, I am trying to work through this question and I have had little success tonight. I think I can make the code below work if I only knew what event was fired when the window.print() function is called.

var browser_name = navigator.appName; 

if(browser_name == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer'){
     window.attachEvent("print()",on_print_function);//I realize I cannot attach an event listener to a function, I just wanted you to see what I am trying to accomplish
}

else{
     window.addEventListener("print()",on_print_function,false);
}

The function that is called when the print event takes place returns a page that stores some info in the database.

My end objective is to have the page print ONLY if the info in question is going to be stored in the database. I am open to better ways of tackling this, but I think I will have it going ok if I can just get the event for the print() as I said.

EDIT

I am giving up on this for now, I have settled with another way of doing what I want. I look forward to the day when FireFox supports onbeforeprint() and onafterprint().

Answer 1

Well as far as I know, IE has several events line onbeforeprint() and onafterprint() but they are not supported by other browsers. So relying on this is not very good.

Perhaps you can have a print button on your page. Attach to it a handler which executes the ajax call to the server to store the data to the database and on success of this call, call the print() on the window.

Is that what you are looking for ?