Is it possible to save HTML page as PDF using JavaScript or jquery?

Is it possible to save HTML page as PDF using JavaScript or jquery?

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I generated one HTML Page which contains a table . It has one button 'save as PDF'. If user clicks that button then that HTML page has to convert as PDF file.

Is it possible using JavaScript or jquery?


Yes, Use jspdf To create a pdf file.

You can then turn it into a data URI and inject a download link into the DOM

You will however need to write the HTML to pdf conversion yourself.

Just use printer friendly versions of your page and let the user choose how he wants to print the page.

Edit: Apparently it has minimal support

So the answer is write your own PDF writer or get a existing PDF writer to do it for you (on the server).


This might be a late answer but this is the best around: https://github.com/eKoopmans/html2pdf

Pure javascript implementation. Allows you to specify just a single element by ID and convert it.


Ya its very easy to do with javascript. Hope this code is useful to you.

You'll need the JSpdf library.

<div id="content">
     <h3>Hello, this is a H3 tag</h3>

    <p>a pararaph</p>
</div>
<div id="editor"></div>
<button id="cmd">Generate PDF</button>

<script>
    var doc = new jsPDF();
    var specialElementHandlers = {
        '#editor': function (element, renderer) {
            return true;
        }
    };

    $('#cmd').click(function () {
        doc.fromHTML($('#content').html(), 15, 15, {
            'width': 170,
                'elementHandlers': specialElementHandlers
        });
        doc.save('sample-file.pdf');
    });

    // This code is collected but useful, click below to jsfiddle link.
</script>

jsfiddle link here


You can use Phantomjs. Download here and use the following example to test the html->pdf conversion feature https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/blob/master/examples/rasterize.js

Example code:

phantomjs.exe examples/rasterize.js http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS3/Selectors/current/xhtml/index.html sample.pdf