pdfkit - How to avoid page break inside table row for wkhtmltopdf

Question

I am generating pdf report from html page with one table.

I am using wkhtmltopdf for the purpose.

when pdf is generated it breaks anywhere in tr tag.

I want to avoid it .

Answer 1

Update 17.09.2015: Check the version you are using: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.2.4 is said to fix the problem (I have not checked).

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This is a known issue in wkhtmltopdf. The page breaking algorithm used by webkit (the WK in WKhtmltopdf) doesn't really work well for large tables. I suggest breaking the table down to smaller chunks that are more easily split to pages and using the css a lot:

table, tr, td, th, tbody, thead, tfoot {
    page-break-inside: avoid !important;
}

Also have a look at the following wkhtmltopdf issues, they have interesting comments that discuss for example the table splitting problem. There is a JS solution that programmatically splits tables in 168 that might help you (I don't use it though).

• https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/issues/detail?id=168
• https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/issues/detail?id=9

Update 08.11.2013 There is much discussion about this in issue 168 linked above. Someone has managed to compile a version of wkhtmltopdf that supports better table breaking, but unfortunately it seems that it's not officially released and might contain other bugs. I don't know how to get it and I don't know how to compile on Windows, but anyone interested can check for example the comment here (see new update below).

Update 24.02.2014 You will be pleased to hear that in wkhtmltopdf 0.12 this feature among others has been greatly improved. However, wait for 0.12.1 and test thoroughly before starting to use any new version, it's still a little unstable although the new guys working on with antialize are doing a Great job (ashkulz rocks)! Keep updated at wkhtmltopdf.org and github. The google code site is obsolete and being slowly migrate.