Hi all, Can anybody help me in resolving this issue. I am generating PDF using cfdocument tag of ColdFusion. I am rendering data in a table ( dynamic one ). If rows in the table exceed the current page , and continue on the next page , I want the table headers to be repeated on each of the page. I've tried this css

table { -fs-table-paginate: paginate !important; }

but no luck.

which version of ColdFusion / Lucee / Railo?

I am using CF2021. for thead tag also, I ve tried some kinda css

thead {

display: table-header-group;

}

Just checked and ACF2023 was when they updated it to support CSS3

Oh, ok. But our server is on 2021. Is there any other way we can achieve that one? and its in cfdocument

If thead / tbody / tfoot isn't working then I don't think it's possible using cfdocument I'm afraid. Others may have got it to work though.

ok thanks for your response @aliaspooryorik

Lucee uses a completely different engine for generating PDFs (I think it's FlyingSaucer) https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer

Yes its using FS.

If you don't have to use cfdocument then there are several ways to generate PDFs. cfdocument is limited though (much better in ACF2023 though)

Yeah. but I'm just wondering why CF document generated pdf can't do most of the css styling. I've almost worked with many projects with pdf like this and its oh frustrating to do the css thing to matchit with exact design client wants.

It's because it used an old version of IText. Whilst it's nice to have a lot of stuff "out of the box" with ColdFusion - you are locked into whatever version of a library your version of ColdFusion has.

Appreciate the insight. I m gonna investigate more on this. Thank you @aliaspooryorik

We've had success with Playwright - although it can't handle documents with lots of pages.

Oh, great. Let me dig that too.

Thanks for sharing