dompdf HTML to PDF - can't set margin of page

Question

version: 0.6.0 beta 3

I tryed in every manner to make dompdf set the margin of the page. I have a long page with a lot of text, divided in chapters...

my css is something like:

#wrapper{     padding:8px; }  /* other styles... */  @page{margin: 0.2in 0.5in 0.2in 0.5in;} 

when the php is

<?php ob_start(); // begin collecting output include 'makemypdf.php'; // this page output the html $html = ob_get_clean(); // retrieve output from makemypdf.php and stop buffering   require_once("dompdf/dompdf_config.inc.php");  $dompdf = new DOMPDF(); $dompdf->load_html($html); $dompdf->render(); $dompdf->stream("sample.pdf", array("Attachment" => false));  ?> 

but what I get is a page with NO margins!!! only the padding of the #wrapper are applied... and they are applyed only at the beginning and at the end of the entire PDF...

I'm doing something wrong?

PS - it seems that only the bottom-margin is applied... but I'm not sure...

PPS - I tryed with no success also this css: body { margin-top: 40px; } html { margin-top: 40px; } @page { margin-top: 40px; }

Answer 1

I figured out that neither body or @page works in this version of dompdf.

the problem was in the main CSS, where I put every tyme this line:

*{margin:0;padding:0} 

I find out that margins of the PDF are decided in base of the margin of the HTML, so I removed that line with the global selector and replaced with:

th,td,p,div,b ... {margin:0;padding:0} html{margin:40px 50px} 

This works as "un-expected" and I get the right margin in every page.

NOW I'M HAPPY. I really don't know who down-vote my question, I think it's very important! In fact everywhere in internet there's the wrong answer (using body or @page margin).

solution: use in CSS html{margin:...}