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How to show scrollable all contents of div in pdf using html2canvas


I have a simple div contains number of paragraph,that having particular height and vertical scroll beyond the height.When I am downloading the pdf only the visible part of the div is showing.But I need to show all the contents.Here is the code.

html

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jspdf/1.4.1/jspdf.min.js">
</script>
<div id="content">
      <p>This is the element you only want to capture</p>   
       <p>This is the element you only want to capture</p>  
        <p>This is the element you only want to capture</p> 
         <p>This is the element you only want to capture</p>    
          <p>This is the element you only want to capture</p>   
    </div>
    <button id="print">Download Pdf</button>
    <footer>This is the footer</footer>

javascript

(document).ready(function() {
 $('#print').click(function() {

  var w = document.getElementById("content").offsetWidth;
  var h = document.getElementById("content").offsetHeight;
  html2canvas(document.getElementById("content"), {

    dpi: 300, // Set to 300 DPI
    scale: 3, // Adjusts your resolution
    onrendered: function(canvas) {
      var img = canvas.toDataURL("image/jpeg", 1);
      var doc = new jsPDF('L', 'px', [w, h]);
      doc.addImage(img, 'JPEG', 0, 0, w, h);
      doc.addPage();
      doc.save('sample-file.pdf');
    }
  });
});

});

css

body {
  background: beige;
}

header {
  background: red;
}

footer {
  background: blue;
}

#content {
  background: yellow;
  width: 70%;
  height: 100px;
  margin: 50px auto;
  border: 1px solid orange;
  padding: 20px;
  overflow-y:auto;
}
.html2canvas-container { width: 3000px !important; height: 3000px !important; }

Solution

  • You should set the height to auto and then once image generated set the height to your preferred height. So you can capture the whole content.

    Add this document.getElementById("content").style.height="auto"; line after getting the offsetWidth and offsetHeight.

    And add this document.getElementById("content").style.height="100px"; line after the html2canvas finished.

    $(document).ready(function() {
         $('#print').click(function() {
         var currentPosition = document.getElementById("content").scrollTop;
          var w = document.getElementById("content").offsetWidth;
          var h = document.getElementById("content").offsetHeight;
         document.getElementById("content").style.height="auto";
    
          html2canvas(document.getElementById("content"), {
    
            dpi: 300, // Set to 300 DPI
            scale: 3, // Adjusts your resolution
            onrendered: function(canvas) {
              var img = canvas.toDataURL("image/jpeg", 1);
              var doc = new jsPDF('L', 'px', [w, h]);
              doc.addImage(img, 'JPEG', 0, 0, w, h);
              doc.addPage();
              doc.save('sample-file.pdf');
            }
          });
         document.getElementById("content").style.height="100px";
         document.getElementById("content").scrollTop = currentPosition;
        });
    
    });
    

    If it doesnt download on above snippet, you can test it here

    Update 1

    Add p tag on each page jsfiddle