# jasonday/printThis

jQuery printing plugin; print specific elements on a page

Repository: https://github.com/jasonday/printThis
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/printthis
Homepage: https://jasonday.github.io/printThis/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: printing, jquery, jquery-plugin, print
Last push: 2025-12-01T19:46:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 48/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 55, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5053, "days_push": 275, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1053, forks 440 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:23.606580+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: stable
- function: ui-components, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery-plugin, printing, dom-elements, iframe, css-preservation, jquery, javascript

## Member repositories
- jasonday/printThis (main) score 48

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:23.606580+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:59:21.689936+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jasonday/printThis (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:23.606580+00:00, sha 1635709ccd14)
  - homepage: https://jasonday.github.io/printThis/ (fetched 2026-08-29T13:00:50.535924+00:00, sha eaf627ae0f87)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.