✨ Simple trick for printing a div

Advantages

• Your page retains interactivity after print
• Plays nice with frameworks
• Doesn't require duplicating your UI for print

Steps

1. Hide every content of the page when in print mode
2. Make your target element visible in print mode

Step 1

@media print {
  body {
    visibility: hidden;
  }
}

Step 2

@media print {
  #section-to-print {
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    position: absolute;
    visibility: visible;
  }
}

Then print

const button = document.querySelector('print-page');

button.addEventListener('click', () => window.print());

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This method avoids the pitfall of loosing interactivity, other methods replace the entire page content with the static HTML thereby loosing interactivity.

const printContents = document.getElementById(divId).innerHTML;
const originalContents = document.body.innerHTML;

document.body.innerHTML = printContents;

window.print();

document.body.innerHTML = originalContents;