Generate pdf from HTML in div using Javascript

Question

I have the following html code:

    
        
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Answer 1

Use pdfMake.js and this Gist.

(I found the Gist here along with a link to the package html-to-pdfmake, which I end up not using for now.)

After npm install pdfmake and saving the Gist in htmlToPdf.js I use it like this:

const pdfMakeX = require('pdfmake/build/pdfmake.js');
const pdfFontsX = require('pdfmake-unicode/dist/pdfmake-unicode.js');
pdfMakeX.vfs = pdfFontsX.pdfMake.vfs;
import * as pdfMake from 'pdfmake/build/pdfmake';
import htmlToPdf from './htmlToPdf.js';

var docDef = htmlToPdf(`Sample`);
pdfMake.createPdf({content:docDef}).download('sample.pdf');

Remarks:

• My use case is to create the relevant html from a markdown document (with markdown-it) and subsequently generating the pdf, and uploading its binary content (which I can get with pdfMake's getBuffer() function), all from the browser. The generated pdf turns out to be nicer for this kind of html than with other solutions I have tried.
• I am dissatisfied with the results I got from jsPDF.fromHTML() suggested in the accepted answer, as that solution gets easily confused by special characters in my HTML that apparently are interpreted as a sort of markup and totally mess up the resulting PDF.
• Using canvas based solutions (like the deprecated jsPDF.from_html() function, not to be confused with the one from the accepted answer) is not an option for me since I want the text in the generated PDF to be pasteable, whereas canvas based solutions generate bitmap based PDFs.
• Direct markdown to pdf converters like md-to-pdf are server side only and would not work for me.
• Using the printing functionality of the browser would not work for me as I do not want to display the generated PDF but upload its binary content.