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JavaScript HTML2PDF.js Add Header/Footer to All PDF Pages

In this tutorial, I will show you how to add a header and footer to each and every page of the PDF document using the JavaScript HTML2PDF.js library. The full source code of this project is given below.

Add Header/Footer to PDF Pages Using JavaScript HTML2PDF.js

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<style>
    div {
  outline: red solid 1px;
  page-break-inside: avoid;
}
#nextpage1 {
  page-break-before: always;
}
</style>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/html2pdf.js/0.10.1/html2pdf.bundle.min.js" integrity="sha512-GsLlZN/3F2ErC5ifS5QtgpiJtWd43JWSuIgh7mbzZ8zBps+dvLusV+eNQATqgA/HdeKFVgA5v3S/cIrLF7QnIg==" crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"></script>

<body>
    

<!-- Button to generate PDF. -->
<button id="btnTest">Generate PDF</button>
<div id ="root">

<div>
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
</div>
<div id="nextpage1">
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
</div>
<br>

</div>
</body>
<script>
html2pdf(document.getElementById('root'), {
    margin: 10,
    filename: "my.pdf",
    image: {type: 'jpeg', quality: 1},
    html2canvas: {dpi: 72, letterRendering: true},
    jsPDF: {unit: 'mm', format: 'a4', orientation: 'landscape'},
    pdfCallback: pdfCallback
})

function pdfCallback(pdfObject) {
    var number_of_pages = pdfObject.internal.getNumberOfPages()
    var pdf_pages = pdfObject.internal.pages
    var myFooter = "Footer info"
    for (var i = 1; i < pdf_pages.length; i++) {
        // We are telling our pdfObject that we are now working on this page
        pdfObject.setPage(i)

        pdfObject.text("my header text", 10, 10)

        // The 10,200 value is only for A4 landscape. You need to define your own for other page sizes
        pdfObject.text(myFooter, 10, 200)
    }
}
</script>
</html>
Furqan

Well. I've been working for the past three years as a web designer and developer. I have successfully created websites for small to medium sized companies as part of my freelance career. During that time I've also completed my bachelor's in Information Technology.

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