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Generating PDF files offline - Some best practices
Using HTML/JS Tables:
If
f you need to generate a PDF offline from your HTML/JS app, we've determined that the best approach is to avoid the use of <table> elements and instead build the page structure with <div> elements. It's been noted (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9288802/avoid-page-break-inside-row-of-table/27209406) that <tr> elements do not appear to respect the break-inside/page-break-inside CSS attributes.
Note: If you are building your app to run within Pulsar FSLapp: Pulsar FSL app is utilizing Bootstrap 4. In the discussions around page breaks and <table> elements, it's been suggested that Bootstrap may impact this.
There are a number of suggested solutions in the Stack Overflow post. We have tested a few of the simpler ones (changing the attribute to break-inside and applying the properties to <td> elements instead of <tr>) without success. So we think using <div> elements as the primary structure of the document will be the easiest path forward.
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