WindowEventHandlers.onbeforeprint

The onbeforeprint property of the WindowEventHandlers mixin is the event handler for processing beforeprint events for the current window. These events are raised before the print dialog window is opened.

The beforeprint and afterprint events allow pages to change their content before printing starts (perhaps to remove a banner, for example) and then revert those changes after printing has completed. In general, you should prefer the use of an @media print CSS at-rule, but it may be necessary to use these events in some cases.

Syntax

window.addEventListener("beforeprint", function(event) { ... });
window.onbeforeprint = function(event) { ... };

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
onbeforeprint
63
12
6
≤6
50
13
63
63
?
46
13
8.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowEventHandlers/onbeforeprint