jasonday/printThis

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1053 stars · 440 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

printThis is a jQuery plugin that lets users print specific or multiple DOM elements from a web page while preserving CSS styling, form values, and canvas content. It works by rendering the selected content into a hidden iframe and invoking the browser's print dialog with configurable options.

Use cases

• print only a specific section of a web page instead of the whole page
• print multiple selected elements together with their styling intact
• add a custom header or footer to printed output
• preserve form input values when printing a page
• print canvas graphics from a web page
• apply custom CSS only to the printed version of content

When to choose

• you already use jQuery and need selective element printing
• you need to preserve page CSS, form entries, or canvas content in print output
• you want fine-grained control over print styling, headers, footers, and delays

When to avoid

• your project does not use jQuery and you prefer a dependency-free solution
• you need server-side or PDF generation rather than browser printing
• you need printing in a non-browser environment

Facets

plugin · maturity stable

ui-components developer-tools web-development frontend developer-tools browser jquery-plugin printing dom-elements iframe css-preservation jquery javascript

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