HTML5 & Web Page PDF Render Engine

Convert HTML to PDF

Paste markup, upload an .html file, or give us a web page address. Your own browser does the drawing, so stylesheets, web fonts and page breaks come out exactly as designed — with text that stays selectable.

A full document or a loose fragment both work. Nothing is uploaded — this renders inside your browser.

Your browser draws the page, so your styling is kept exactly — it will ask where to save the PDF. Want the file straight away instead? Convert on our server (downloads immediately, plainer styling).

How to Convert HTML or a Web Page to PDF

Step 1: Choose a source
Paste HTML markup, upload an .html file, or type the address of a public web page.
Step 2: Set the page
Pick A4, Letter or Legal, portrait or landscape, and how much margin you want around the content.
Step 3: Save the PDF
Click Render & Save as PDF and choose Save as PDF as the destination in the print dialog.

Why Convert HTML to PDF with The PDF Lab?

Real CSS, not a screenshot

Gradients, shadows, flexbox, grid, web fonts and media queries all render, because the page is drawn by a browser rather than traced onto a canvas.

Text stays text

Headings and paragraphs arrive as selectable, searchable text with clean page breaks — no image-based pages, and no lines sliced in half.

Pasted markup never leaves your device

HTML you paste or open is rendered locally in an isolated frame. Only the URL option involves our server, because only a server can fetch someone else's page.

No installation, no account

Invoices, reports, lesson notes, receipts and email templates convert in the browser you already have open.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does a print dialog open instead of downloading a file? Because that dialog is the browser's own PDF writer, and it is the highest quality renderer available for HTML — it produces vector text and honours every stylesheet. Choose Save as PDF as the destination. If you would rather have a file with no dialog at all, use the server option under the button; it downloads immediately, though complex CSS layouts come out more plainly.
My dark code blocks and coloured panels printed white. Why? Background graphics are switched off by default in some browsers. Open More settings in the print dialog and tick Background graphics.
There is a date and a web address on every page. That is the browser's own running header, not part of your document. Untick Headers and footers in the print dialog and it disappears.
Will my JavaScript run? In the paste and file tabs, yes — scripts run inside a sandboxed frame that cannot reach this site, so things like syntax highlighters and chart libraries finish drawing before the PDF is made. Pages fetched by URL have their scripts removed on the server for safety.
Can it convert a page that needs a login? No — our server visits the address as an anonymous stranger, so it only ever sees the public version. Open the page in your browser, save it as an .html file, and convert that with the HTML file tab instead.
Is there a size limit? Pasted or uploaded markup is capped at 2 MB, and a fetched web page at 10 MB. That is a great deal of HTML — a long illustrated report is usually well under a tenth of it.