window.print() from Chrome subwindow - close, then breaks

Question

When in our webapp a Chrome subwindow is launched, either by window.open() or by user clicking a link with target="_blank", then in that subwindow, body onload="window.print()" to auto-launch the print dialog and print preview, then user CLOSES the print/subwindow instead of clicking cancel, the parent window gets completely hosed. Specifically:

No javascript events will fire
No links are clickable
Hitting F5 shows the little spinner in the tab but the page never reloads.
The parent window is truly dead -- all you can do is close it.

If you click cancel on the subwindow (where the print-preview is launched via window.print()) everything is fine. But if user closes the window, all the craziness happens.

This is a known bug in Chrome:

Does anyone know of a workaround for this?

See this post. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23071291/javascript-window-print-in-chrome-closing-new-window-or-tab-instead-of-cancel — Craig Howard, May 22 '14 at 14:08

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 19 '14 at 05:44

Instead of using window.print(), just bring your content to new window and then call print functionality as given below, to print the content.

following is a function call where we passed element's inner html through it's id to new window.

PrintContent(document.getElementById('div-content-id').innerHTML);

function PrintContent(printableContent) {
    var printWindow = window.open("", "Print_Content", 'scrollbars=1,width=900,height=900top=' + (screen.height - 700) / 2 + ',left=' + (screen.width - 700) / 2);
    printWindow.document.write(printableContent);
    printWindow.document.close();
    printWindow.focus();
    printWindow.print();
    printWindow.close();
    return false;
}

I was also facing same problem, it works for me.

window.print() from Chrome subwindow - close, then breaks

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