Export div content to PDF Using ITextSharp in asp.net

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In this short article I will explain how to export content in a div to a PDF using ITextSharp  in ASP.Net.

Step1: ITextSharp is a free and open source assembly that helps to convert page output or HTML content in a PDF file.Download it first from given link  and add dll file in bin folder-https://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/files/itextsharp/

Step2-add Page

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Studentdetails.aspx.cs" Inherits="Studentdetails" EnableEventValidation = "false" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
  <div id="studentdetails" runat="server">

   Export Div Content to PDF Using ITextSharp
      <br />
    <table border="1">
        <tr>
            <td colspan="2">
                <b>Student Detail</b>
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td><b>Student:</b></td>
            <td><asp:Label ID="lblEmployeeId" runat="server" Text="Stu123"></asp:Label></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td><b>First Name:</b></td>
            <td><asp:Label ID="lblname" runat="server" Text="Manvendra"></asp:Label></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td><b>Last Name:</b></td>
            <td><asp:Label ID="lbllast" runat="server" Text="Patel"></asp:Label></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td><b>City:</b></td>
            <td><asp:Label ID="lblcity" runat="server" Text="Delhi"></asp:Label></td>
        </tr>
       
         <tr>
            <td><b>Postal Code:</b></td>
            <td><asp:Label ID="lblpcode" runat="server" Text="2828222"></asp:Label></td>
        </tr>
           <tr>
            <td><b>Country:</b></td>
            <td><asp:Label ID="lblcontry" runat="server" Text="India"></asp:Label></td>
        </tr>    
    </table>
</div>
<asp:Button ID="btnexportstudent" runat="server" Text="Export" OnClick="btnexportstudent_Click" />
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Step3- add code in c# codebehind

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.IO;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using System.Text;

public partial class Studentdetails : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    

   

    protected void btnexportstudent_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

        Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
        Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=studentdetails.pdf");
        Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);

        StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
        HtmlTextWriter htmlTextWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
        studentdetails.RenderControl(htmlTextWriter);

        StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(stringWriter.ToString());
        Document Doc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 100f, 0f);
        HTMLWorker htmlparser = new HTMLWorker(Doc);
        PdfWriter.GetInstance(Doc, Response.OutputStream);

        Doc.Open();
        htmlparser.Parse(stringReader);
        Doc.Close();
        Response.Write(Doc);
        Response.End();
    }
}

Browser view of Page 


















After generated Pdf View .




Comments

  1. jw noze14 November 2018 at 17:54

    Thx for the long information, however it's too complex by using itextsharp...why not choose iditect.converter, it's quiet easy, 3 lines code to export html content to pdf using c#

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