Print a very wide HTML table without clipping right hand side

Question

I have a table with several columns.

THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM

When you print such table, the columns on right will not print, not even when you print in landsc

Answer 1

Here is my go at this:

• Demo and Code
• Article

What I did was:

• Create a fixed width div that fits nicely on an A4 size page
• Copied the table inside that div
• Scroll the table x pixels to bring the desired portion in "focus" using CSS positioning
• Repeat this process y times

Example: if the table is 2000px wide and page width is set to 600px then y should be 4 and x will be 0, 600, 1200 and 1800.

Answer 2

use

@media print{@page {size: landscape}}

Answer 3

See this question: Print Stylesheets for pages with long horizontal tables

The point is that you can't get a browser to print horizontal tables the same way as excel does. You have to switch to something that is at most one page wide.

Answer 4

The answer provided by @(Salman A) worked well for me on Chrome and Firefox. I modified it to break at column boundaries with the following:

var acSplitTable = function() {
    var table = $(".ac-print .ac-grid>table"),
        tableWidth = table.outerWidth(),
        pageWidth = 600,
        pageCount = Math.ceil(tableWidth / pageWidth),
        printWrap = $("<div></div>").insertAfter(table),
        i,
        printPage;

    $(".ac-print .ac-grid>table .ac-hidden").remove();

    var positions = [];
    var lastOuterWidth = 0;
    $(".ac-print .ac-grid>table th").each(function() {
        positions.push($(this).position().left);
        lastOuterWidth = $(this).outerWidth;
    });

    var pageWidths = [];
    var endColumns = [];

    var lastPosition = 0;
    for (i = 1; i < positions.length; i++) {
        if ((positions[i] - lastPosition) > pageWidth) {
            pageWidths.push(positions[i - 1] - lastPosition);
            lastPosition = positions[i - 1];
            endColumns.push(i - 1);
        }
        if (i == (positions.length - 1)) {
            pageWidths.push(positions[i] + lastOuterWidth - lastPosition);
            lastPosition = positions[i];
            endColumns.push(i);
        }
    }
    pageCount = pageWidths.length;

    var lastEndColumn = 0;
    for (i = 0; i < pageCount; i++) {
        var thisPageWidth = pageWidth; //pageWidths[i];
        var styleString = "overflow: hidden; width:" + thisPageWidth + "px; page-break-before: " + (i === 0 ? "auto" : "always") + ";";
        var newTable = table.clone().attr("id", "ac-print-page-" + i);
        newTable.attr("style", styleString);
        newTable.appendTo("#formpoint");

        //remove columns either side of our page
        for (var j = positions.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
            if (j > endColumns[i] || j <= lastEndColumn) {
                var index = j + 1;
                var heading = $(newTable).find("tr th:nth-child(" + index + ")");
                $(newTable).find("tr th:nth-child(" + index + ")").remove();
                $(newTable).find("tr td:nth-child(" + index + ")").remove();
            }
        }

        lastEndColumn = endColumns[i];
    }

    table.hide();
    $(this).prop("disabled", true);

    window.print();
    setTimeout(window.close, 0);

};