I have a internet project where users print a lot. So we add "print button" in every page.

It work's fine in all browser, but google chrome.

This button just call "javacript:window.print". But when pressed, chrome opens new tab "chrome://print" just like when CTRL+P is typed.

But with CTRL+P print preview is showed fine. With "window.print" we get this message: "Print is unavailable because the page you were trying to print has been closed."

How can I solve this?

I have a internet project where users print a lot. So we add "print button" in every page.

It work's fine in all browser, but google chrome.

This button just call "javacript:window.print". But when pressed, chrome opens new tab "chrome://print" just like when CTRL+P is typed.

But with CTRL+P print preview is showed fine. With "window.print" we get this message: "Print is unavailable because the page you were trying to print has been closed."

How can I solve this?

• javascript
• google-chrome
• printing

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• Do you have a test case? It seems to work fine on jsfiddle/pimvdb/V8nWZ. – pimvdb Commented Oct 28, 2011 at 12:05

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Try to add a "return false;" to the button to prevent the default action. So it opens the new tab, but keep the old one at the previous state.