Detect if window.print is confirm or cancel

Question

hello i have a code for print, i do a window open, and this pop-up contain all info for print, and i using the kiosk-printing for automatic printing but that fails sometime, if chrome is open with other instance for example, them i having problems because i need to confirm each print, then i need to know if exist a method for confirm what button press the client in Print Dialog(Print or Cancel).

 var printWindow = window.open(windowUrl, windowName, 'left=500,top=100,width=10,height=10');
             printWindow.document.body.innerHTML = HTL;
             printWindow.document.close();
             printWindow.focus();
             printWindow.print(); // maybe here return if user press print or cancel

           // if(ConfirmPrint=="print"){
            // alert('Print Button');
            //}else{
           //    alert('Cancel Button');
           //   }

[This](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18325025/how-to-detect-window-print-finish) might help you. — J Santosh, Sep 21 '15 at 02:16
it's almost 2021 and I still can't know if my user is clicking a button !? — user12163165, Aug 31 '20 at 22:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 21 '15 at 01:47

2

Sadly, window.print() doesn't return any value. So, there's no way to know if the user clicked Save or Cancel. It's more of your operating system's job to watch what's going on in there. There're, however, two event handlers: window.onbeforeprint and window.onafterprint.

The afterprint event is raised after the user prints or aborts a print dialog.

But again, it's a simple event and it's not telling you which option is selected by the user. And also these two events are not well supported.

answered Sep 21 '15 at 01:47

Gökay Gürcan

1,082
1
10
25

the problem is only is supported by Firefox and IE – jearca Sep 21 '15 at 01:49
Yes, i'm afraid so. We can simply say that webkit is not supporting those two events. – Gökay Gürcan Sep 21 '15 at 01:51

Detect if window.print is confirm or cancel

1 Answers1

Linked