HTML to PDF - CSS in iTextSharp

Question

I am trying to build a pdf file from html code using iTextSharp.

Here is a sample of the HTML:

<div style="height:400px; font-family:Courier; font-size:9px">
    herrow
</div>
<span style="padding-left:100px;">
    world
</span>

Running as an html file it works fine putting 400px between hello and world and 100px before world.

Here is the code I am using to convert the html to pdf:

    List<IElement> htmlList = HTMLWorker.ParseToList(new StringReader(htmlText), new StyleSheet());

    foreach (IElement element in htmlList)
    {
        doc.Add(element);
    }

It does apply the font-family and font-size in the resulting pdf.
However, it ignores the div height and the span width in the pdf that is produced.

Is it possible to use heights / widths / padding etc., when converting html to pdf with iTextSharp?

If not is there a work around, or another free .dll that I can use to do this?

HTMLWorker is deprecated and not supported anymore, instead look into XMLWorker. demo.itextsupport.com/xmlworker/itextdoc/flatsite.html — Chris Haas
– Chris Haas, Commented Jul 15, 2013 at 19:28
same problem here... Is that use of XMLWorker will solve this?? how to use it?? — Sachin
– Sachin, Commented Jul 16, 2013 at 13:10
Try PrinceXML: a replacement and/or a testing for your html2pdf renderization. — Peter Krauss
– Peter Krauss, Commented Nov 1, 2014 at 0:31

Jitender Sharma · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-12 08:13:29Z

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Just pull out height attribute outside the style tag and use it like this:-

<div height='400' style="font-family:Courier;font-size:9px">

herrow

</div>

answered Nov 12, 2013 at 8:13

Jitender Sharma

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:51:53Z

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Instead of using iTextSharp, you may want to take a look at PhantomJS. It's a different approach but it is really helpfull! No more problems with css.

Take a look at this: phantomJS and this.

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:51

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answered Nov 12, 2013 at 18:56

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sports Over a year ago

that would create an image? in that case the pdf wouldn't have selectable text, right?

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