Xfinity.com Website

[UHFhd]

http://customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/list-of-approved-cable-modems/?p=1

                Why does this webpage auto launch my printer access ?

[Queen-Evie]

It launches printer for me when I click the link.

Since this involves an Xfinity page I have moved it to Xfinity.com website.

[BruceW]

The "?p=1" parameter tells it to. If you remove that, the link opens without trying to print.

[UHFhd]

Do you think that was intention of the web master ?

[BruceW]

Probably. Many of the Help & Support articles have Print buttons, and they seem to work like the one you posted. For example, the first link in the Internet section is:

    customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/configuring-xfinity-internet-windows-connections

If you click the Print icon on that page, you get:

    customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/configuring-xfinity-internet-windows-connections/?p=1

[UHFhd]

 Prolly just forgot the print button . Going to print and see what happens . And see which info is available when printing  . 

 It just prints that page, not seeing any useful reason for auto launch printing of that webpage . Now if it was a list of approved modems I could see reason for saving that .

       I believe a correction needs to be done on that webpage .

            Redid search on Google for webpage again seems it has been corrected  

[Queen-Evie]

I looked at view source. Found this-BOLD RED mine. Wondering if this is the code that causes the printer to open. .

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title>

href="/~/media/customer_comcast_com/Styles/help-print-extended.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />-->

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linkhref="/~/media/customer_comcast_com/Styles/help_print.ashx"rel="stylesheet"type="text/css"/><linkhref="/~/media/customer_comcast_com/Styles/help-print-extended.ashx"rel="stylesheet"type="text/css"/><linkhref="/~/media/customer_comcast_com/Styles/help_article.ashx"rel="stylesheet"type="text/css"/></head>

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body>

I then randomly chose 3 FAQ's from Help and Support. None of them had help-print-extended. 

[UHFhd]

     My mistake searching google > approved modems comcast still brings up web page that launches printer app , not corrected .

     Thanks for pointing out source code , Queen-Evie

[Barmar]

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Queen-Evie wrote:

I then randomly chose 3 FAQ's from Help and Support. None of them had help-print-extended. 

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Style sheets don't cause actions, they just control page layout and styling (colors, fonts).

The print dialogue pops up because of this Javascript at the end of the page:

<script type="text/javascript">
window.print();
</script>

[Queen-Evie]

Thank you Barmar. I looked over the entire view source and missed that one.

At least it wasn't as long as some view sources I have seen.

I will wonder no more if what I spotted was the cause because it isn't.

Edit to add: I have a page on my website that I call test to use when trying things. I just inserted the code provided by Barmar on that page and yes indeed it does cause the printer to open when I go to view test page.

[UHFhd]

Still why would someone want to copy that web page to print ? It contains no vital information .

[Barmar]

I think it may just be a general feature of all the help pages.