Your solution requires some ajax method to pass the html to a back-end server that has a html to pdf facility and then returning the pdf output generated back to the browser.
First setting up the client side code, we will setup the jquery code as
Then intercept the data from the html2pdf generation script (somewhere from the internet). convert_to_pdf.php (given as url in JQUERY code) looks like this -
<?php
$html = $_POST['data'];
$pdf = html2pdf($html);
header("Content-Type: application/pdf"); //check this is the proper header for pdf
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='some.pdf';");
echo $pdf;
?>
AFAIK there is no native jquery function that does this. Best option would be to process the conversion on the server. How you do this depends on what language you are using (.net, php etc.). You can pass the content of the div to the function that handles the conversion, which would return a pdf to the user.
Yes, it's possible to To capture div as PDFs in JS. You can can check the solution provided by https://grabz.it. They have nice and clean JavaScript API which will allow you to capture the content of a single HTML element such as a div or a span.
So, yo use it you will need and app+key and the free SDK. The usage of it is as following:
Let's say you have a HTML:
<div id="features">
<h4>Acme Camera</h4>
<label>Price</label>$399<br />
<label>Rating</label>4.5 out of 5
</div>
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risus porttitor tristique at ac diam. Sed nisi risus, rutrum a metus suscipit, euismod tristique nulla. Etiam venenatis rutrum risus at
blandit. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Suspendisse potenti. Phasellus eget vehicula felis.</p>
To capture what is under the features id you will need to:
//add the sdk
<script type="text/javascript" src="grabzit.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//login with your key and secret.
GrabzIt("KEY", "SECRET").ConvertURL("http://www.example.com/my-page.html",
{"target": "#features", "format": "pdf"}).Create();
</script>
You need to replace the http://www.example.com/my-page.html with your target url and #feature per your CSS selector.
That's all. Now, when the page is loaded an image screenshot will now be created in the same location as the script tag, which will contain all of the contents of the features div and nothing else.
The are other configuration and customization you can do to the div-screenshot mechanism, please check them out here