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As I know jsPDF is not working with CSS and the same issue I was facing.
To solve this issue, I used Html2Canvas. Just Add HTML2Canvas JS and then use pdf.addHTML() instead of pdf.fromHTML().
Here's my code (no other code):
var pdf = new jsPDF('p', 'pt', 'letter');
pdf.addHTML($('#ElementYouWantToConvertToPdf')[0], function () {
pdf.save('Test.pdf');
});
Best of Luck!
Edit: Refer to this line in case you didn't find .addHTML()
jspdf does not work with css but it can work along with html2canvas. You can use jspdf along with html2canvas.
include these two files in script on your page :
<script type="text/javascript" src="html2canvas.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jspdf.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function genPDF()
{
html2canvas(document.body,{
onrendered:function(canvas){
var img=canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
var doc = new jsPDF();
doc.addImage(img,'JPEG',20,20);
doc.save('test.pdf');
}
});
}
</script>
You need to download script files such as https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas/releases https://cdnjs.com/libraries/jspdf
make clickable button on page so that it will generate pdf and it will be seen same as that of original html page.
<a href="javascript:genPDF()">Download PDF</a>
It will work perfectly.
I used this plugin to generate PDF with HTML and CSS. You just have to include the content, you want to put in PDF, in a "" with an id.
https://github.com/Xportability/css-to-pdf
maybe i could not to be of such help, but it seems to be a bug of that library: https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF/issues/91
In that page you'll find a suggestion for your purpose: to use Html2Canvas.
jsPDF is able to use plugins. In order to enable it to print HTML, you have to include certain plugins and therefore have to do the following:
- Go to https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF and download the latest Version.
- Include the following Scripts in your project:
- jspdf.js
- jspdf.plugin.from_html.js
- jspdf.plugin.split_text_to_size.js
- jspdf.plugin.standard_fonts_metrics.js
If you want to ignore certain elements, you have to mark them with an ID, which you can then ignore in a special element handler of jsPDF. Therefore your HTML should look like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<p id="ignorePDF">don't print this to pdf</p>
<div>
<p><font size="3" color="red">print this to pdf</font></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Then you use the following JavaScript code to open the created PDF in a PopUp:
var doc = new jsPDF();
var elementHandler = {
'#ignorePDF': function (element, renderer) {
return true;
}
};
var source = window.document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];
doc.fromHTML(
source,
15,
15,
{
'width': 180,'elementHandlers': elementHandler
});
doc.output("dataurlnewwindow");
For me this created a nice and tidy PDF that only included the line 'print this to pdf'.
Please note that the special element handlers only deal with IDs in the current version, which is also stated in a GitHub Issue. It states:
Because the matching is done against every element in the node tree, my desire was to make it as fast as possible. In that case, it meant "Only element IDs are matched" The element IDs are still done in jQuery style "#id", but it does not mean that all jQuery selectors are supported.
Therefore replacing '#ignorePDF' with class selectors like '.ignorePDF' did not work for me. Instead you will have to add the same handler for each and every element, which you want to ignore like:
var elementHandler = {
'#ignoreElement': function (element, renderer) {
return true;
},
'#anotherIdToBeIgnored': function (element, renderer) {
return true;
}
};
From the examples it is also stated that it is possible to select tags like 'a' or 'li'. That might be a little bit to unrestrictive for the most usecases though:
We support special element handlers. Register them with jQuery-style ID selector for either ID or node name. ("#iAmID", "div", "span" etc.) There is no support for any other type of selectors (class, of compound) at this time.
One very important thing to add is that you lose all your style information (CSS). Luckily jsPDF is able to nicely format h1, h2, h3 etc., which was enough for my purposes. Additionally it will only print text within text nodes, which means that it will not print the values of textareas and the like. Example:
<body>
<ul>
<!-- This is printed as the element contains a textnode -->
<li>Print me!</li>
</ul>
<div>
<!-- This is not printed because jsPDF doesn't deal with the value attribute -->
<input type="text" value="Please print me, too!">
</div>
</body>
This is the simple solution. This works for me. You can use the javascript print concept and simple save this as pdf.
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$("#btnPrint").live("click", function () {
var divContents = $("#dvContainer").html();
var printWindow = window.open('', '', 'height=400,width=800');
printWindow.document.write('<html><head><title>DIV Contents</title>');
printWindow.document.write('</head><body >');
printWindow.document.write(divContents);
printWindow.document.write('</body></html>');
printWindow.document.close();
printWindow.print();
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1">
<div id="dvContainer">
This content needs to be printed.
</div>
<input type="button" value="Print Div Contents" id="btnPrint" />
</form>
</body>
</html>