Code to Print and Save HTML Page as PDF [Simple JavaScript Function]

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Being a web developer, many times you need to allow the user to print or save HTML page as PDF.

Suppose you have a web form on your website and the user has to submit the data. After submitting the form, you can allow the user to print or save the HTML page as a PDF with all the user data. A user can use this data for future reference.

Another example. If you have a tutorial on your website, you can allow a user to print the tutorial so that the user can use it offline.

A simple solution to allow the user to print or save the HTML page as PDF will be very helpful. You don’t need any external tool to convert HTML to PDF.

Code to Print and Save HTML Page as PDF

Hope you are familiar with basic HTML tags. Call the Javascript function inside the HTML to print and save the webpage as PDF.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    ​<h2>Tutorial to print HTML page</h2>
    <p>Click the button to print this page.</p>​

    <button onclick="printFunction()">Print</button>​

    <script>
      function printFunction() { 
        window.print(); 
      }
    </script>
  ​</body>
</html>

Here,

  • The window.print() is the inbuilt function to pint the current window.
  • The  printFunction() is user define javascript function which you call from HTML object.

By clicking on the button, the user can save the HTML page as PDF or can download it.

The print() function supports almost all the popular web browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari (Mac and other iOS web browsers).

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Javascript is one of the highest-paying programming languages and has very advanced programming features.

This is a simple JavaScript function to convert HTML to PDF or to print or save HTML page as PDF. You can run this code in an online HTML editor for testing.

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Comments

  • Reply
    sakshi nasa
    July 1, 2021 at 11:16 am

    I want to print a specific part of the page and not the entire page. Please suggest.

    • Reply
      Aniruddha Chaudhari
      July 1, 2021 at 3:17 pm

      Set the div for the content you want to print. And then use the write() method inside the JavaScript function.

      Let’s say…

      function printFunction() {
            var divContents = document.getElementById("DIV_ID").innerHTML;
            var prnt = window.open('', '', 'height=500, width=500');
             prnt .document.write(divContents);
            prnt .document.close();
            prnt .print();
}

      Try this and let me know if this is working for you.

  • Reply
    Erik
    July 5, 2021 at 2:24 pm

    This print functions works! But how to use it as Save as a function?

    • Reply
      Aniruddha Chaudhari
      July 5, 2021 at 5:19 pm

      When you click on the print button, you can print the page if you are connected to the printer or you can also save the page as PDF.

  • Reply
    Sarah
    October 21, 2021 at 8:31 pm

    Simple and very useful trick.

  • Reply
    EG
    November 13, 2021 at 5:39 am

    thank you very much for the tip!

    • Reply
      Aniruddha Chaudhari
      December 19, 2021 at 10:35 am

      You’re welcome.

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