How do I obtain html of the current page (with dynamic data)?

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Hi,

I’m trying to send html of a page (with dynamic data) to a PDF-print service. I see many variables that I can send, but which variable contains the STANDALONE html of the page/section/div/whatever that I can send (STANDALONE, without the external PDF-print service having to refer back to Weweb) ?

Best regards,
Thijs

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Hey @thijs :wave:

Not sure how your PDF service works but you can get the current page’s HTML with some custom code.
wwLib.getFrontDocument().documentElement.outerHTML

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Hi @jptrinh,

Thank you, this is perfect!

Is there a way to limit this function to just a specific section/div (and everything therein contained) of the webpage?

Perhaps I have to mark certain HTML attributes of the section/div ? And then refer to that in the code?

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Nice! Yes, you can add a specific id, class or attribute in the Settings pannel of an element :slight_smile:

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Hi @jptrinh,

I would expect that, but I don’t know how exactly to do that… can you help me with:

  1. Can I just name any field-type within the HTML attributes? For example, if I give the Id a name is fine?
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  2. How do I adjust the code that you provided to apply only to that attribute?
    wwLib.getFrontDocument().documentElement.outerHTML

Thank you!

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Yes, that’s the correct way of adding an id to an element.

Then the selector can be adjusted to query the id like this:
wwLib.getFrontDocument().querySelector("#printpagina1").outerHTML

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Hi @jptrinh,

Thank you very much, but somehow the selector (to query the id) changes the document into an inconsistent mess (too many things: layout, margins, font type). Do you recognize this might be an issue - and how to resolve this?

I can’t use the selector this way, but it would mean to me the difference between automation in the background vs. (now) having to open the print-section into a new tab to be able to use the wwLib.getFrontDocument().documentElement.outerHTML

Hopefully there is a fix for getting a true clean HTML print of a section?

Regards,
Thijs