DotNetNuke’s IE7 printer-friendly bug - fixed!

If you’ve worked much with DotNetNuke, you may have noticed a bit of an odd bug: if you use IE7 and click on the printer icon next to a module for a printer-friendly page, the CSS on the page you clicked the icon on…breaks.

This is because the way that DotNetNuke’s module actions work is to inject Javascript into the page, using Response.Write() - having a <script> tag at the start of the HTML document makes IE7 throw up.

The fix is actually very simple(for a developer), however - you need to download the DotNetNuke source, and change line 159 of Library\Components\Skins\ActionBase.vb to this:

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Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(Me.GetType(), "DotNetNuke.NewWindow", String.Format("<script>window.open('{0}','_blank')</script>", Command.Url))

Once that’s finished, build your DotNetNuke library - and copy the resulting DotNetNuke.dll into the bin directory of any website that you want to add the fix to. If you’re feeling really lazy, you can download my copy of the dll(built for version 4.8.4) below:

DotNetNuke IE7 print bugfix DLL

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