SelectPdf for .NET - Control Page Breaks with Html to Pdf Converter - C# / ASP.NET MVC Sample

This sample shows how to use SelectPdf html to pdf converter to convert a raw html code to pdf and also how to control the page breaks from the html code.

To insert a page break in pdf, the html code must have an element with the style page-break-before: always or page-break-after: always. Before or after that specific element, a page break will be inserted into the generated pdf document. The element can be anything (image, table, table row, div, text, etc).

To instruct a certain section from the content to remain on the same page in the generated pdf document, an element with the style page-break-inside: avoid must be used.

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Base Url:


Sample Code C#



using System.Web.Mvc;
using SelectPdf.Samples.Models;

namespace SelectPdf.Samples.Controllers
{
    public class PageBreaksController : Controller
    {
        // GET: PageBreaks
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            ViewData.Add("PageBreaksValue", Helper.PageBreaksText());
            
            return View();
        }
        
        [HttpPost]
        [ValidateInput(false)]
        public ActionResult SubmitAction(FormCollection collection)
        {
            string htmlString = collection["TxtHtmlCode"];
            string baseUrl = collection["TxtBaseUrl"];

            // instantiate a html to pdf converter object
            HtmlToPdf converter = new HtmlToPdf();

            converter.Options.MarginTop = 10;
            converter.Options.MarginBottom = 10;
            converter.Options.MarginLeft = 10;
            converter.Options.MarginRight = 10;

            // create a new pdf document converting an url
            PdfDocument doc = converter.ConvertHtmlString(htmlString, baseUrl);

            // save pdf document
            byte[] pdf = doc.Save();

            // close pdf document
            doc.Close();

            // return resulted pdf document
            FileResult fileResult = new FileContentResult(pdf, "application/pdf");
            fileResult.FileDownloadName = "Document.pdf";
            return fileResult;
        }
			
    }
}