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xhtml2pdf not applying css while creating pdf (html to pdf)

Conversion:

html = template.render(context)
resultFile = open(filepath, "w+b")
pdf = pisa.CreatePDF(html.encode('utf-8'), dest=resultFile,encoding='utf-8', link_callback=link_callback)

link_callback

def link_callback(uri, rel):
    sUrl = settings.STATIC_URL      # Typically /static/
    sRoot = settings.STATIC_ROOT    
    mUrl = settings.MEDIA_URL       # Typically /static/media/
    mRoot = settings.MEDIA_ROOT     # Typically /home/userX/project_static/media/

    # convert URIs to absolute system paths
    if uri.startswith(mUrl):
        path = os.path.join(mRoot, uri.replace(mUrl, ""))
    elif uri.startswith(sUrl):
        path = os.path.join(sRoot, uri.replace(sUrl, ""))
    else:
        return uri  # handle absolute uri (ie: http://some.tld/foo.png)

    # make sure that file exists
    if not os.path.isfile(path):
        raise Exception(
            'media URI must start with %s or %s' % (sUrl, mUrl)
        )
    return path

I have created pdf using xhtml2pdf. The file is created but css is not at all applied to it. I have checked the path which is returned from link_callback, its correct but in pdf there is no css applied at all.

css:

#page_1 {position:relative; overflow: hidden;margin: 64px 0px 65px 0px;padding: 0px;border: none;}

#page_1 #p1dimg1 {position:absolute;top:0px;left:20%;z-index:-1;width:600px;height:870px;}
#page_1 #p1dimg1 #p1img1 {width:600px;height:870px;}

#page_2 {position:relative; overflow: hidden;padding-left: 100px;border: none;height: 854px;}

#page_2 #p2dimg1 {position:absolute;left:27%;z-index:-1;width:490px;height:669px;}
#page_2 #p2dimg1 #p2img1 {width:490px;height:669px;}

css path which i got: /Users/mypc/project/project/static/css/lender_borrower.css

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Prashant Jha Avatar asked Sep 06 '25 03:09

Prashant Jha


1 Answers

xhtml2pdf doesn't allow linking to external stylesheets.

You will need to provide an internal style sheet - which means writing your styles in the head of the HTML template, between tags

<style type="text/css">HERE</style>

However, note that many CSS styles are not supported. See the docs for what CSS is supported.

Sample template below:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>Whatever</title>
  <style type="text/css">

  # PLACE ALL YOUR CSS STYLING HERE

  </style>
</head>
<body>

# content goes here

</body>
</html>
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Timbokun Avatar answered Sep 10 '25 12:09

Timbokun