I have the following html code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<p>don't print this to pdf</p>
<div id="pdf">
<p><font size="3" color="red">print this to pdf</font></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
All I want to do is to print to pdf whatever is found in the div with an id of "pdf". This must be done using JavaScript. The "pdf" document should then be automatically downloaded with a filename of "foobar.pdf"
I've been using jspdf to do this, but the only function it has is "text" which accepts only string values. I want to submit HTML to jspdf, not text.
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="textarea" 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 = $("#dvContainer").html();
var printWindow = window.open('', '', 'height=400,width=800');
printWindow.document.write('<html><head><title>DIV Contents</title>');
printWindow.document.write('</head><body >');
printWindow.document.write(divContents);
printWindow.document.write('</body></html>');
printWindow.document.close();
printWindow.print();
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1">
<div id="dvContainer">
This content needs to be printed.
</div>
<input type="button" value="Print Div Contents" id="btnPrint" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
No depenencies, pure JS
To add CSS or images - do not use relative URLs, use full URLs http://...domain.../path.css or so. It creates separate HTML document and it has no context of main thing.
you can also embed images as base64
This served me for years now:
export default function printDiv({divId, title}) {
let mywindow = window.open('', 'PRINT', 'height=650,width=900,top=100,left=150');
mywindow.document.write(`<html><head><title>${title}</title>`);
mywindow.document.write('</head><body >');
mywindow.document.write(document.getElementById(divId).innerHTML);
mywindow.document.write('</body></html>');
mywindow.document.close(); // necessary for IE >= 10
mywindow.focus(); // necessary for IE >= 10*/
mywindow.print();
mywindow.close();
return true;
}
Of course this will open print dialog and user will have to know she/he can select print to pdf option, to get pdf. There may be printer pre-selected and if user confirms may get this document actually printed. To avoid such situation and to provide PDF without any extras, you need to make PDF file. Probably on the server side. You could have tiny html page with invoice only and convert it to PDF file with headless chrome. It's super easy with puppeteer. No need to install/config chrome, just install npm package puppeteer (managed by chrome team) and run it. Keep in mind this will actually launch real chrome just w/o GUI, so you need to have some RAM & CPU for this. Most servers will be fine with low enough traffic. Here is code sample but this must run on the BACKEND. Nodejs. Also it's slow call, it's resources intensive call. You should run it NOT on api call but e.g. after invoice was created - create pdf for it and store, if pdf was not generated yet, just show message to try again in couple minutes.
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
(async () => {
const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto('https://your-domain.com/path-to-invoice', {
waitUntil: 'networkidle2',
});
await page.pdf({ path: 'invoice-file-path.pdf', format: 'a4' });
await browser.close();
})();
Learn more here: https://pptr.dev/
if you need to downloadable pdf of a specific page just add button like this
<h4 onclick="window.print();"> Print </h4>
use window.print() to print your all page not just a div
You can use autoPrint() and set output to 'dataurlnewwindow' like this:
function printPDF() {
var printDoc = new jsPDF();
printDoc.fromHTML($('#pdf').get(0), 10, 10, {'width': 180});
printDoc.autoPrint();
printDoc.output("dataurlnewwindow"); // this opens a new popup, after this the PDF opens the print window view but there are browser inconsistencies with how this is handled
}
As mentioned, you should use jsPDF and html2canvas. I've also found a function inside issues of jsPDF which splits automatically your pdf into multiple pages (sources)
function makePDF() {
var quotes = document.getElementById('container-fluid');
html2canvas(quotes, {
onrendered: function(canvas) {
//! MAKE YOUR PDF
var pdf = new jsPDF('p', 'pt', 'letter');
for (var i = 0; i <= quotes.clientHeight/980; i++) {
//! This is all just html2canvas stuff
var srcImg = canvas;
var sX = 0;
var sY = 980*i; // start 980 pixels down for every new page
var sWidth = 900;
var sHeight = 980;
var dX = 0;
var dY = 0;
var dWidth = 900;
var dHeight = 980;
window.onePageCanvas = document.createElement("canvas");
onePageCanvas.setAttribute('width', 900);
onePageCanvas.setAttribute('height', 980);
var ctx = onePageCanvas.getContext('2d');
// details on this usage of this function:
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API/Tutorial/Using_images#Slicing
ctx.drawImage(srcImg,sX,sY,sWidth,sHeight,dX,dY,dWidth,dHeight);
// document.body.appendChild(canvas);
var canvasDataURL = onePageCanvas.toDataURL("image/png", 1.0);
var width = onePageCanvas.width;
var height = onePageCanvas.clientHeight;
//! If we're on anything other than the first page,
// add another page
if (i > 0) {
pdf.addPage(612, 791); //8.5" x 11" in pts (in*72)
}
//! now we declare that we're working on that page
pdf.setPage(i+1);
//! now we add content to that page!
pdf.addImage(canvasDataURL, 'PNG', 20, 40, (width*.62), (height*.62));
}
//! after the for loop is finished running, we save the pdf.
pdf.save('test.pdf');
}
});
}
i use jspdf and html2canvas for css rendering and i export content of specific div as this is my code
$(document).ready(function () {
let btn=$('#c-oreder-preview');
btn.text('download');
btn.on('click',()=> {
$('#c-invoice').modal('show');
setTimeout(function () {
html2canvas(document.querySelector("#c-print")).then(canvas => {
//$("#previewBeforeDownload").html(canvas);
var imgData = canvas.toDataURL("image/jpeg",1);
var pdf = new jsPDF("p", "mm", "a4");
var pageWidth = pdf.internal.pageSize.getWidth();
var pageHeight = pdf.internal.pageSize.getHeight();
var imageWidth = canvas.width;
var imageHeight = canvas.height;
var ratio = imageWidth/imageHeight >= pageWidth/pageHeight ? pageWidth/imageWidth : pageHeight/imageHeight;
//pdf = new jsPDF(this.state.orientation, undefined, format);
pdf.addImage(imgData, 'JPEG', 0, 0, imageWidth * ratio, imageHeight * ratio);
pdf.save("invoice.pdf");
//$("#previewBeforeDownload").hide();
$('#c-invoice').modal('hide');
});
},500);
});
});
One way is to use window.print() function. Which does not require any library
Pros
1.No external library require.
2.We can print only selected parts of body also.
3.No css conflicts and js issues.
4.Core html/js functionality
---Simply add below code
CSS to
#media print {
body * {
visibility: hidden; // part to hide at the time of print
-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact !important; // not necessary use
if colors not visible
}
#printBtn {
visibility: hidden !important; // To hide
}
#page-wrapper * {
visibility: visible; // Print only required part
text-align: left;
-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact !important;
}
}
JS code - Call bewlow function on btn click
$scope.printWindow = function () {
window.print()
}
Note: Use !important in every css object
Example -
.legend {
background: #9DD2E2 !important;
}
Use pdfMake.js and this Gist.
(I found the Gist here along with a link to the package html-to-pdfmake, which I end up not using for now.)
After npm install pdfmake and saving the Gist in htmlToPdf.js I use it like this:
const pdfMakeX = require('pdfmake/build/pdfmake.js');
const pdfFontsX = require('pdfmake-unicode/dist/pdfmake-unicode.js');
pdfMakeX.vfs = pdfFontsX.pdfMake.vfs;
import * as pdfMake from 'pdfmake/build/pdfmake';
import htmlToPdf from './htmlToPdf.js';
var docDef = htmlToPdf(`<b>Sample</b>`);
pdfMake.createPdf({content:docDef}).download('sample.pdf');
Remarks:
My use case is to create the relevant html from a markdown document (with markdown-it) and subsequently generating the pdf, and uploading its binary content (which I can get with pdfMake's getBuffer() function), all from the browser. The generated pdf turns out to be nicer for this kind of html than with other solutions I have tried.
I am dissatisfied with the results I got from jsPDF.fromHTML() suggested in the accepted answer, as that solution gets easily confused by special characters in my HTML that apparently are interpreted as a sort of markup and totally mess up the resulting PDF.
Using canvas based solutions (like the deprecated jsPDF.from_html() function, not to be confused with the one from the accepted answer) is not an option for me since I want the text in the generated PDF to be pasteable, whereas canvas based solutions generate bitmap based PDFs.
Direct markdown to pdf converters like md-to-pdf are server side only and would not work for me.
Using the printing functionality of the browser would not work for me as I do not want to display the generated PDF but upload its binary content.
I was able to get jsPDF to print dynamically created tables from a div.
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#pdfDiv").click(function() {
var pdf = new jsPDF('p','pt','letter');
var specialElementHandlers = {
'#rentalListCan': function (element, renderer) {
return true;
}
};
pdf.addHTML($('#rentalListCan').first(), function() {
pdf.save("caravan.pdf");
});
});
});
Works great with Chrome and Firefox... formatting is all blown up in IE.
I also included these:
<script src="js/jspdf.js"></script>
<script src="js/jspdf.plugin.from_html.js"></script>
<script src="js/jspdf.plugin.addhtml.js"></script>
<script src="//mrrio.github.io/jsPDF/dist/jspdf.debug.js"></script>
<script src="http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/build/html2canvas.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="./libs/FileSaver.js/FileSaver.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="./libs/Blob.js/Blob.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="./libs/deflate.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="./libs/adler32cs.js/adler32cs.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jspdf.plugin.addimage.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jspdf.plugin.sillysvgrenderer.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jspdf.plugin.split_text_to_size.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jspdf.plugin.standard_fonts_metrics.js"></script>
If you want to export a table, you can take a look at this export sample provided by the Shield UI Grid widget.
It is done by extending the configuration like this:
...
exportOptions: {
proxy: "/filesaver/save",
pdf: {
fileName: "shieldui-export",
author: "John Smith",
dataSource: {
data: gridData
},
readDataSource: true,
header: {
cells: [
{ field: "id", title: "ID", width: 50 },
{ field: "name", title: "Person Name", width: 100 },
{ field: "company", title: "Company Name", width: 100 },
{ field: "email", title: "Email Address" }
]
}
}
}
...
This example works great.
<button onclick="genPDF()">Generate PDF</button>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jspdf/1.5.3/jspdf.min.js"></script>
<script>
function genPDF() {
var doc = new jsPDF();
doc.text(20, 20, 'Hello world!');
doc.text(20, 30, 'This is client-side Javascript, pumping out a PDF.');
doc.addPage();
doc.text(20, 20, 'Do you like that?');
doc.save('Test.pdf');
}
</script>
Dissatisfied with the rendering of html2canvas and lack of modern CSS3/JS and print specific CSS support of pdfMake's outdated version of WebKit...
Here's a theoretical solution, it's headless and can render pages faithfully, supports page breaks, margins, different page sizes and can be automated. You can even render WebGl to PDF.
Chrome has a devtools protocol... which has a printtoPDF function
Excerpt: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/new
Official 20k-SLOC spec: https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/devtools-protocol/blob/master/json/browser_protocol.json
You can use node and https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-launcher to run chrome headless... wait for it to render.
Profit
printToPDF command you'd run on chrome_devtools protocol:
printToPDF({
printBackground: false,
pageWidth: 8.5,
pageHeight: 11,
transferMode: "ReturnAsStream" // or ReturnAsBase64
})
2022 Answer:
To generate PDF from HTML Element and prompt to save file:
import { jsPDF } from "jsPDF"
function generatePDF() {
const doc = new jsPDF({ unit: 'pt' }) // create jsPDF object
const pdfElement = document.getElementById('pdf') // HTML element to be converted to PDF
doc.html(pdfElement, {
callback: (pdf) => {
pdf.save('MyPdfFile.pdf')
},
margin: 32, // optional: page margin
// optional: other HTMLOptions
})
}
<button onclick="generatePDF()">Save PDF</button>
...
To preview PDF without printing:
doc.html(pdfElement, {
callback: (pdf) => {
const myPdfData = pdf.output('datauristring')
}
})
<embed type="application/pdf" src={myPdfData} />
...
For more HTMLOptions:
https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF/blob/master/types/index.d.ts
To capture div as PDF you can use https://grabz.it solution. It's got a JavaScript API which is easy and flexible and will allow you to capture the contents of a single HTML element such as a div or a span
In order to implement it you will need to first get an app key and secret and download the (free) SDK.
And now an example.
Let's say you have the HTML:
<div id="features">
<h4>Acme Camera</h4>
<label>Price</label>$399<br />
<label>Rating</label>4.5 out of 5
</div>
<p>Cras ut velit sed purus porttitor aliquam. Nulla tristique magna ac libero tempor, ac vestibulum felisvulput ate. Nam ut velit eget
risus porttitor tristique at ac diam. Sed nisi risus, rutrum a metus suscipit, euismod tristique nulla. Etiam venenatis rutrum risus at
blandit. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Suspendisse potenti. Phasellus eget vehicula felis.</p>
To capture what is under the features id you will need to:
//add the sdk
<script type="text/javascript" src="grabzit.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//login with your key and secret.
GrabzIt("KEY", "SECRET").ConvertURL("http://www.example.com/my-page.html",
{"target": "#features", "format": "pdf"}).Create();
</script>
Please note the target: #feature. #feature is you CSS selector, like in the previous example. Now, when the page is loaded an image screenshot will now be created in the same location as the script tag, which will contain all of the contents of the features div and nothing else.
The are other configuration and customization you can do to the div-screenshot mechanism, please check them out here
The following method works fine for my case.
Hide additional parts for a page like the following example
#media print{
body{
-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; // if you want to enable graphics
color-adjust: exact !important; // if you want to enable graphics
print-color-adjust: exact !important; // if you want to enable graphics
* {
visibility: hidden;
margin:0;
padding:0
}
.print_area, .print_area *{
visibility: visible;
}
.print_area{
margin: 0;
align: center;
}
.pageBreak {
page-break-before : always; // If you want to skip next page
page-break-inside: avoid; // If you want to skip next page
}
}
#page {
size: A4; margin:0mm; // set page layout
background-color: #fff;
}
}
Use the javascript print function to print execution.
<button onclick="window.print()">Print</button>
any one try this
(function () {
var
form = $('.form'),
cache_width = form.width(),
a4 = [595.28, 841.89]; // for a4 size paper width and height
$('#create_pdf').on('click', function () {
$('body').scrollTop(0);
createPDF();
});
//create pdf
function createPDF() {
getCanvas().then(function (canvas) {
var
img = canvas.toDataURL("image/png"),
doc = new jsPDF({
unit: 'px',
format: 'a4'
});
doc.addImage(img, 'JPEG', 20, 20);
doc.save('Bhavdip-html-to-pdf.pdf');
form.width(cache_width);
});
}
// create canvas object
function getCanvas() {
form.width((a4[0] * 1.33333) - 80).css('max-width', 'none');
return html2canvas(form, {
imageTimeout: 2000,
removeContainer: true
});
}
}());
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I've searched the web countless times trying to find a way to solve this but I've come up empty-handed every time. I have been using qrcode.js to generate QR codes for a website, but I haven't figured out how to download the image once it's been generated. The code I use to generate the QR code looks like this:
var myQR = new QRCode(document.getElementById("qrcode"), {
text: "Made with QR Generator",
width: 128,
height: 128,
colorDark : qrdarkcolor,
colorLight : qrlightcolor,
correctLevel : QRCode.CorrectLevel.H
});
myQR.makeCode(qrdata);
I am trying to find a way to either download the QR code within the div or find the source and create a button that users can click on to download the image. I apologize if this is a commonly asked question, but I've searched many other questions that are similar to this and haven't found a clear answer. I would prefer to keep this site with only HTML, CSS, and Javascript if possible.
Thanks!
The image is generated through the plugin and takes a moment to render, so the method needs to be done with setTimeout. After that, we grab the src of the image and apply it to a download link (a link that has the attribute download in it)
Note this won't work in the snippet sandbox, but it's been tested on a normal web page and works great.
const makeQR = (url, filename) => {
var qrcode = new QRCode("qrcode", {
text: "http://jindo.dev.naver.com/collie",
width: 128,
height: 128,
colorDark: "#000000",
colorLight: "#ffffff",
correctLevel: QRCode.CorrectLevel.H
});
qrcode.makeCode(url);
setTimeout(() => {
let qelem = document.querySelector('#qrcode img')
let dlink = document.querySelector('#qrdl')
let qr = qelem.getAttribute('src');
dlink.setAttribute('href', qr);
dlink.setAttribute('download', 'filename');
dlink.removeAttribute('hidden');
}, 500);
}
makeQR(document.querySelector('#text').value, 'qr-code.png')
#qrcode {
width: 160px;
height: 160px;
margin-top: 15px;
}
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/davidshimjs-qrcodejs#0.0.2/qrcode.min.js"></script>
<input id="text" type="text" value="https://stackoverflow.com" style="width:80%" /><br />
<div id="qrcode"></div>
<a id='qrdl' hidden>Download</a>
You can use Qurious to generate QR code in canvas and then download it. Qurious has also its own padding option (it makes white borders around the qr code so it's possible to scan it after download).
Add this at the <head> part:
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/qrious/4.0.2/qrious.min.js"></script>
Html body:
<canvas id="qrcode"></canvas>
Script:
const makeQR = (your_data) => {
let qrcodeContainer = document.getElementById("qrcode");
qrcodeContainer.innerHTML = "";
new QRious({
element: qrcodeContainer,
value: your_data,
size: 600,
padding:50,
}); // generate QR code in canvas
downloadQR(); // function to download the image
}
function downloadQR() {
var link = document.createElement('a');
link.download = 'filename.png';
link.href = document.getElementById('qrcode').toDataURL()
link.click();
}
makeQR("Your value")
I noticed that the 'qrcodejs' is returning img with blank src on mobile device browsers(Android -> Chrome), whereas it returns an img with valid src (data URI) when you request from mobile as a 'desktop agent'.
You could able to test it by debugging the mobile.
i have a link in my main page that uses ajax to retrieve a PDF which is displayed in an Iframe, i am trying to detect scroll event of the PDF document and display a message or do something. i have tried different solutions from other solutions on stackoverflow and google search in general and couldn't find a good solution.
Main.php
<html>
<!--ajax request-->
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).on('click','#nextpdf',function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
var reg = $(this).attr("href");
var str = reg.split('?')[1];
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: '../functions/pdfreader.php',
data: 'pdfxs='+str+'',
cache:false,
async: false,
success: function(data) {
// data is ur summary
$('.refresh').html(data);
return false;
}
});//end of ajax
});
</script>
<?php
while($obj = $c_content->fetch())
{
$title = $obj['lecture_title'];
echo '<article class="comment2">
//pdf link
<div class="comment2-body">
<div class="text" style="color:#999;padding-right:130px;">
<p><a href="../functions/pdfreader.php?'.$title.'""
style="color:#999" id="nextpdf">'.$title.'</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</article>
';
}
?>
</html>
pdfreader.php
//detect iframe pdf scroll
<script type="text/javascript">
$("myiframe").load(function () {
var iframe = $("myiframe").contents();
$(iframe).scroll(function () {
alert('scrolling...');
});
});
</script>
<?php
........
while($obj = $gettrend->fetch())
{
$coursefile = $obj['lecture_content'];
//this is my iframe
echo '<div class="mov_pdf_frame"><iframe id="myiframe"
src="https://localhost/einstower/e-learn/courses/pdf/'.$coursefile.'"
id="pdf_content"
width="700px" height="800px" type="application/pdf">
</iframe></div>';
}
?>
The major problem here is that nothing happens when i scroll the pdf document, how can i detect scrolling?
i found this fiddle that works but i cant view the javascript solution. http://fiddle.jshell.net/czw8pbvj/1/
First off, $("myiframe") isn't finding anything, so it attaches a load event to nothing. 1) change it to $("#myiframe") or $("iframe").
Here's a working fiddle (for iframe scroll detection)
UPDATE: to detect the scroll within PDF document, you can't use iframe. For that, you need embed or object tags AND a JS-enabled PDF document (hopefully its your PDFs..), who can send messages to your page's JS (see this answer).
Unfortunately, I couldn't find a scroll event in Adobe's Acrobat API Reference. It lists only these events:
Event type: Event names
App: Init
Batch: Exec
Bookmark: Mouse Up
Console: Exec
Doc: DidPrint, DidSave, Open, WillClose, WillPrint, WillSave
External: Exec
Field: Blur, Calculate, Focus, Format, Keystroke, Mouse Down, Mouse Enter, Mouse Exit, Mouse Up, Validate
Link: Mouse Up
Menu: Exec
Page: Open, Close
Screen: InView, OutView, Open, Close, Focus, Blur, Mouse Up, Mouse Down, Mouse Enter, Mouse Exit
So, basically, I think what you want just isn't possible as for now, at least with default rendering. With custom rendering (https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js) it could be possible, though I'm not sure.
Apparently, it could be done with page scroll (see this issue). So back to iframes solution. :^D
Because this question is asked a long time ago, i think i need to help with my experience before.
The answer is: You can not
Why? because PDF is rendered by external apps, such as adobe pdf reader, foxit or else. And you can not attach event on them.
if you are using adobe reader, The only you can do is goto page, change zoom etc. Full example you can read here: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf#page=8 (see. i bring you to page 8 directly instead to first page).
But, hei.. how if our client using another apps? we will confused more
The way to do this is only build your own pdf viewer.
we can using js library, like: http://www.bestjquery.com/2012/09/best-jquery-pdf-viewer-plugin-examples/
but here i only will show you to use pdf.js which created by mozilla.
main.php
<style>
.preview{
display:none;
width: 400px;
height: 400px;
border: 1px solid black;
}
</style>
file/test.pdf<br>
file/test1.pdf<br>
<div class="preview">
<iframe id="myiframe" frameborder="0" width="400px" height="400px" >not support iframe</iframe>
</div>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$(document).on('click', '#nextpdf', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$('#myiframe').attr('src', $(this).attr('href'));
$('.preview').show();
});
//handle iframe on scroll
$('#myiframe').on('load', function () {
$(this).contents().scroll(function () {
console.log('scrolled');
}).click(function(){
console.log('clicked');
});
});
});
</script>
pdfreader.php
<?php
$path = 'file/';
$pdf = isset($_GET['pdfxs']) ? $path . $_GET['pdfxs'] : '';
if(!file_exists($pdf) || !mime_content_type($pdf) =='application/pdf') die('file not found');
?>
<div id="pdf-container">
<div id="pdf-box"></div>
</div>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/build/pdf.js"></script>
<script>
$(function(){
//original script : https://gist.github.com/fcingolani/3300351
function renderPDF(url, canvasContainer, options) {
var options = options || { scale: 1 };
function renderPage(page) {
var viewport = page.getViewport(options.scale);
var canvas = $(document.createElement('canvas'));
var renderContext = {
canvasContext: canvas[0].getContext('2d'),
viewport: viewport
};
canvas.attr('width', viewport.width).attr('height', viewport.height);
canvasContainer.append(canvas);
page.render(renderContext);
}
function renderPages(pdfDoc) {
for(var num = 1; num <= pdfDoc.numPages; num++)
pdfDoc.getPage(num).then(renderPage);
}
PDFJS.disableWorker = true;
PDFJS.getDocument(url).then(renderPages);
}
renderPDF('<?=$pdf;?>', $('#pdf-box'));
});
</script>
Note: i put pdf on folder file/
in main.php you will notice that you can attach event scroll (and click too) to the pdf. because our pdf is not rendered by external apps now.
and the last part is, if you read pdfreader.php carefully, you will notice that you no need iframe anymore. You just need div, and then you can fully handle all event that do you want to your pdf : like scroll, click, change page, zoom, etc. why?? because your pdf is redered as canvas now (pdf.js render your pdf as HTML5 canvas). see full example of pdf.js
Please try this
iframe.on( "scroll", handler )
$("#frame").scroll(function () {
if ($(window).scrollTop() == $(document).height() - $(window).height())
alert('Bottom reached');
});
I found this in the JSFiddle that was referenced in the Fiddle you linked. The HTML field is empty. This CSS was in there, too.
body {
height: 1500px;
}
In the fiddle that you linked, the <iframe> has an ID of frame. I figured you can use the jQuery selector like $("#frame").
I think this will help you.
$("#myiframe").load(function () {
$(this).contents().scroll(function () {
//your code here
});
});
I need to display html elements as contents of a popup panel using javascript in my firefox addon.
Displaying popup using SDK is what I'm looking for but I don't want to use SDK.
panel:
<popupset id="mainPopupSet">
<panel id="htmlPanel" type="arrow">
i want to use html elements like p,div,span, etc here.
</panel>
</popupset>
javascript to open panel:
document.getElementById('htmlPanel').innerHTML = 'my custom contents';
document.getElementById('htmlPanel').openPopup(null, "before_start", 0, 0, false, false);
it seems some elements are allowed but with different behavior! i also need to set CSS for elements inside panel.
I figure it out how to do it using an iframe
changed the XUL as follow:
<popupset id="mainPopupSet">
<panel id="htmlPanel" type="arrow">
<html:iframe id="htmlContainer"/>
</panel>
</popupset>
and create a javascript function to set html contents:
function setupPanel(contents, width, height)
{
var iframe = document.getElementById("htmlContainer");
iframe.setAttribute("src","data:text/html;charset=utf-8," + escape(contents));
iframe.width = width || 300; //default width=300
iframe.height = height || 300; //default height=300
}
and usage:
setupPanel("<p>this is raw HTML.</p>");
document.getElementById('htmlPanel').openPopup(null, "before_start", 0, 0, false, false);
thanks for your hints.
With animation can copy paste to scratchpad to run it.
var win = Services.wm.getMostRecentWindow('navigator:browser');
var panel = win.document.createElement('panel');
var props = {
type: 'arrow',
style: 'width:300px;height:100px;'
}
for (var p in props) {
panel.setAttribute(p, props[p]);
}
win.document.querySelector('#mainPopupSet').appendChild(panel);
panel.addEventListener('popuphiding', function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();
//panel.removeEventListener('popuphiding', arguments.callee, false); //if dont have this then cant do hidepopup after animation as hiding will be prevented
panel.addEventListener('transitionend', function () {
//panel.hidePopup(); //just hide it, if want this then comment out line 19 also uncomment line 16
panel.parentNode.removeChild(panel); //remove it from dom //if want this then comment out line 18
}, false);
panel.ownerDocument.getAnonymousNodes(panel)[0].setAttribute('style', 'transform:translate(0,-50px);opacity:0.9;transition: transform 0.2s ease-in, opacity 0.15s ease-in');
}, false);
panel.openPopup(null, 'overlap', 100, 100);
to display html in it, do createElementNS('html namespace i cant recall right now','iframe') then set the src of this to the html you want it to display
the type:'arrow' here is important
Since this appears to be an overlay of browser.xul, if your panel will display static content or a simple template, you can take advantage of the fact that the XHTML namespace is already declared.
<popupset id="mainPopupSet">
<panel id="htmlPanel" type="arrow">
<html:div id="htmlplaceholder">
<html:p>Lorem ipsum</html:p>
<html:p>foo <html:strong>bar</html:strong></html:p>
</html:div>
</panel>
</popupset>
The Add-on SDK hosts the html content inside an iframe, perhaps you should consider this for more complex cases.
I was wondering if this is possible.
I want to create a function to retrieve an image and insert into an iframe. The user must be able to choose a file (image/video) and it will be inserted into an iframe.
main.html
<input type="file" id="addImage"> I have used this for the user to choose a file.
<iframe class="frame" id="frame" src="insert.html"></iframe> And this for the iframe. The iframe src is another html document.
insert.html
<span id="edit"></span> is within the insert.html where the image needs to be inserted to.
I don't quite understand how javascript can be used to retrieve the image from the users selection and insert into the iframe.
Is this possible?
Yes, here is an example. The key is to hook onto the iframe and then use its contentWindow.
EDIT
Additionally, I don't know if you meant the browse for file or the drag'n'drop API so I implemented both.
Lots of help from these sources:
file-api : How to interact with the file-api
drag-drop events : Events to key off of when dragging and dropping
And here is a fiddle:
JSFiddle
CSS
*{
font-family: Arial;
}
.section{
width: 400px;
padding: 20px;
margin: auto;
}
#dragDiv{
background-color: #ffffcc;
}
#browseDiv{
background-color: #ccffcc;
}
#iframeDiv{
background-color: #ffcccc;
}
#dropTarget{
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
border-style: dashed;
border-width: 5px;
}
.dropEnabled{
border-color: #999999;
}
.dropEnabled:hover{
border-color: #ff9933;
}
.dropMe{
border-color: #99ff99;
}
JS
/**
* I set up the listeners for dragging and dropping as well
* as creating an iFrame for holding dragged in images
* #returns {undefined}
*/
function main() {
// The div that receives drops and the new iFrame
var targetDiv = document.getElementById("dropTarget"),
iframe = document.createElement("iframe");
// Set the iframe to a blank page
iframe.src = "about:blank";
// Append it to the target
document.getElementById("iframeTarget").appendChild(iframe);
// Drag over is when an object is hovering over the div
// e.preventDefault keeps the page from changing
targetDiv.addEventListener("dragover", function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
this.className = "dropMe";
}, false);
// Drag leave is when the object leaves the div but isn't dropped
targetDiv.addEventListener("dragleave", function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
this.className = "dropEnabled";
}, false);
// Drop is when the click is released
targetDiv.addEventListener("drop", function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
this.className = "dropEnabled";
loadFile(e.dataTransfer.files[0], iframe);
}, false);
document.getElementById("upload").addEventListener("click", function() {
var file = document.getElementById("browsedFile").files[0];
loadFile(file, iframe);
}, false);
}
/**
* Load a file and then put it on an ifrmae
* #param {Element} f The file that needs to get loaded
* #param {Element} destination The iframe that the file is appended to
* #returns {undefined}
*/
function loadFile(f, destination) {
// Make a file reader to interpret the file
var reader = new FileReader();
// When the reader is done reading,
// Make a new image tag and append it to the iFrame
reader.onload = function(event) {
var newImage = document.createElement("img");
newImage.src = event.target.result;
destination.contentWindow.document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].appendChild(newImage);
};
// Tell the reader to start reading asynchrounously
reader.readAsDataURL(f);
}
// Run the main script
window.onload = main;
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>I framed it</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
</head>
<body>
<div id="dragDiv" class="section">
<div>The div below receives dragged in files</div>
<div id="dropTarget" class="dropEnabled"></div>
</div>
<div id="browseDiv" class="section">
<div>I upload stuff the boring way</div>
<input type="file" id="browsedFile"><button id="upload">Upload</button>
</div>
<div id="iframeDiv" class="section">
<div>And below me, an iFrame gets created</div>
<div id="iframeTarget"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
And here is the result:
And the DOM:
EDIT
A comment was made about how to do this with videos as well. There are several ways to do it, but here is one way that I would do it using the HTML5 <vido> tag which you can find more information on here: HTML Videos.
One tricky thing that I'm sure is rather cludgy is how to say what kind of file you should be loading. I use a switch() on the file's type attribute which usually evaluates to something like: image/png or video/mp4 for MP4 videos. However, this ties you to a specific file format. A better way to do it would be to make a regular expression that figures out if it's just an image or a video and ignore the format since the process is rougly the same for all files of those types.
I added my own regular expression implementation. Probably, not the best, but it allows all appropriate image types to come through now.
Also, I tried using some sample videos from Apple which can be found here: Sample QuickTime Movies. However, those did not work for some reason. So after that, I just downloaded the sample videos that W3Schools uses in their tutorial. I'm telling you this so that in case you try it and it doesn't work, it might be the file itself and not your code.
Edited loadFile() Function
/**
* Load a file and then put it on an ifrmae
* #param {Element} f The file that needs to get loaded
* #param {Element} destination The iframe that the file is appended to
* #returns {undefined}
*/
function loadFile(f, destination) {
// Make a file reader to interpret the file
var reader = new FileReader(),
loaderFunc = null,
typeRegEx = /^(\w+)\//,
contentType = f.type.match(typeRegEx)[1];
// Figure out how to load the data
switch (contentType) {
case "video":
loaderFunc = function(event) {
var newVideo = document.createElement("video"),
newVideoSource = document.createElement("source");
newVideo.width = 300;
newVideo.height = 300;
newVideo.setAttribute("controls");
newVideoSource.src = event.target.result;
newVideoSource.type = f.type;
destination.contentWindow.document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].appendChild(newVideo);
newVideo.appendChild(newVideoSource);
};
break;
case "image":
loaderFunc = function(event) {
var newImage = document.createElement("img");
newImage.src = event.target.result;
destination.contentWindow.document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].appendChild(newImage);
};
break;
default:
console.log("Unknown file type");
return;
}
// We should have returned, but just make sure
if (loaderFunc) {
// When the reader is done reading,
// Make a new image tag and append it to the iFrame
reader.onload = loaderFunc;
// Tell the reader to start reading asynchrounously
reader.readAsDataURL(f);
}
}
You can manipulate directly an iframe from an other if they are from same domain.
See jQuery/JavaScript: accessing contents of an iframe
What you can do if this is not the case is :
Setting up a communication process between both pages (see How to communicate between iframe and the parent site?)
or
Uploading your file to a server, and refresh the "insert.html" page to display the uploaded image.
I'm trying to capture a div into an image using html2canvas
I have read some similar question here like
How to upload a screenshot using html2canvas?
create screenshot of web page using html2canvas (unable to initialize properly)
I have tried the code
canvasRecord = $('#div').html2canvas();
dataURL = canvasRecord.toDataURL("image/png");
and the canvasRecord will be undefined after .html2canvas() called
and also this
$('#div').html2canvas({
onrendered: function (canvas) {
var img = canvas.toDataURL()
window.open(img);
}
});
browser gives some (48 to be exact) similar errors like:
GET http://html2canvas.appspot.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmts1.googleapis.com%2Fvt%…%26z%3D12%26s%3DGalileo%26style%3Dapi%257Csmartmaps&callback=html2canvas_1 404 (Not Found)
BTW, I'm using v0.34 and I have added the reference file html2canvas.min.js and jquery.plugin.html2canvas.js
How can I convert the div into canvas in order to capture the image.
EDIT on 26/Mar/2013
I found Joel's example works.
But unfortunately when Google map embedded in my app, there will be errors.
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
div#testdiv
{
height:200px;
width:200px;
background:#222;
}
div#map_canvas
{
height: 500px;
width: 800px;
position: absolute !important;
left: 500px;
top: 0;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3&sensor=false"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="html2canvas.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>
<script language="javascript">
$(window).load(function(){
var mapOptions = {
backgroundColor: '#fff',
center: new google.maps.LatLng(1.355, 103.815),
overviewMapControl: true,
overviewMapControlOptions: { opened: false },
mapTypeControl: true,
mapTypeControlOptions: { position: google.maps.ControlPosition.TOP_LEFT, style: google.maps.MapTypeControlStyle.DROPDOWN_MENU },
panControlOptions: { position: google.maps.ControlPosition.RIGHT_CENTER },
zoomControlOptions: { position: google.maps.ControlPosition.RIGHT_CENTER },
streetViewControlOptions: { position: google.maps.ControlPosition.RIGHT_CENTER },
disableDoubleClickZoom: true,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP,
minZoom: 1,
zoom: 12
};
map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map_canvas'), mapOptions);
$('#load').click(function(){
html2canvas($('#testdiv'), {
onrendered: function (canvas) {
var img = canvas.toDataURL("image/png")
window.open(img);
}
});
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="testdiv">
</div>
<div id="map_canvas"></div>
<input type="button" value="Save" id="load"/>
</body>
</html>
I ran into the same type of error you described, but mine was due to the dom not being completely ready to go. I tested with both jQuery pulling the div and also getElementById just to make sure there wasn't something strange with the jQuery selector. Below is an example that works in Chrome:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
div {
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
background-color: #2C7CC3;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="html2canvas.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
<script language="javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
//var testdiv = document.getElementById("testdiv");
html2canvas($("#testdiv"), {
onrendered: function(canvas) {
// canvas is the final rendered <canvas> element
var myImage = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
window.open(myImage);
}
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="testdiv">
</div>
</body>
</html>
If you just want to have screenshot of a div, you can do it like this
html2canvas($('#div'), {
onrendered: function(canvas) {
var img = canvas.toDataURL()
window.open(img);
}
});
you can try this code to capture a div When the div is very wide or offset relative to the screen
var div = $("#div")[0];
var rect = div.getBoundingClientRect();
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = rect.width;
canvas.height = rect.height;
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.translate(-rect.left,-rect.top);
html2canvas(div, {
canvas:canvas,
height:rect.height,
width:rect.width,
onrendered: function(canvas) {
var image = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
var pHtml = "<img src="+image+" />";
$("#parent").append(pHtml);
}
});
10 2022
This question is quite old, but if anyone looking for a clear solution to implement then here it is. This is using Pure JS with html2canvas and FileSaver
I have tested and it works fine.
Capture everything inside a div.
Step 1
Include the scripts in your footer. jQuery is not needed, These two are fine. If you already have these two in your file, watch out for the correct version. I know it's a little thing, but it is important.
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/html2canvas/1.4.1/html2canvas.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/FileSaver.js/2.0.0/FileSaver.min.js"></script>
Step 2
Basic div. The style attribute is optional. I am using it here to make it look presentable.
<div id="savethegirl" style="background-color:coral;color:white;padding:10px;width:200px;">
I am a Pretty girl 👩
</div>
<button onclick="myfunc()">Save the girl</button>
It should look like this
Step 3
Include this script
function myfunc(){
// if you are using a different 'id' in the div, make sure you replace it here.
var element = document.getElementById("savethegirl");
html2canvas(element).then(function(canvas) {
canvas.toBlob(function(blob) {
window.saveAs(blob, "Heres the Girl.png");
});
});
};
Step 4
Click the button and it should save the file.
Resources
CDN from: https://cdnjs.com/
This is from Carlos Delgado's article (https://ourcodeworld.com/articles/read/415/how-to-create-a-screenshot-of-your-website-with-javascript-using-html2canvas). I simplified it
If this answer is useful.
Hit that up arrow 🠉 It will help others to find it.
I don't know if the answer will be late, but I have used this form.
JS:
function getPDF() {
html2canvas(document.getElementById("toPDF"),{
onrendered:function(canvas){
var img=canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
var doc = new jsPDF('l', 'cm');
doc.addImage(img,'PNG',2,2);
doc.save('reporte.pdf');
}
});
}
HTML:
<div id="toPDF">
#your content...
</div>
<button id="getPDF" type="button" class="btn btn-info" onclick="getPDF()">
Download PDF
</button>
You can get the screenshot of a division and save it easily just using the below snippet. Here I'm used the entire body, you can choose the specific image/div elements just by putting the id/class names.
html2canvas(document.getElementsByClassName("image-div")[0], {
useCORS: true,
}).then(function (canvas) {
var imageURL = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
let a = document.createElement("a");
a.href = imageURL;
a.download = imageURL;
a.click();
});
It can be easily done using html2canvas, try out the following,
try adding the div inside a html modal and call the model id using a jquery function. In the function you can specify the size (height, width) of the image to be displayed. Using modal is an easy way to capture a html div into an image in a button onclick.
for example have a look at the code sample,
`
<!-- Modal content-->
<div class="modal-content">
<div class="modal-header">
<div class="modal-body">
<p>Some text in the modal.</p>
`
paste the div, which you want to be displayed, inside the model. Hope it will help.
window.open didn't work for me... just a blank page rendered... but I was able to make the png appear on the page by replacing the src attribute of a pre-existing img element created as the target.
$("#btn_screenshot").click(function(){
element_to_png("container", "testhtmltocanvasimg");
});
function element_to_png(srcElementID, targetIMGid){
console.log("element_to_png called for element id " + srcElementID);
html2canvas($("#"+srcElementID)[0]).then( function (canvas) {
var myImage = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
$("#"+targetIMGid).attr("src", myImage);
console.log("html2canvas completed. png rendered to " + targetIMGid);
});
}
<div id="testhtmltocanvasdiv" class="mt-3">
<img src="" id="testhtmltocanvasimg">
</div>
I can then right-click on the rendered png and "save as". May be just as easy to use the "snipping tool" to capture the element, but html2canvas is an certainly an interesting bit of code!
You should try this (test, works at least in Firefox):
html2canvas(document.body,{
onrendered:function(canvas){
document.body.appendChild(canvas);
}
});
Im running these lines of code to get the full browser screen (only the visible screen, not the hole site):
var w=window, d=document, e=d.documentElement, g=d.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
var y=w.innerHeight||e.clientHeight||g.clientHeight;
html2canvas(document.body,{
height:y,
onrendered:function(canvas){
var img = canvas.toDataURL();
}
});
More explanations & options here: http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/#/documentation.html