Mpdf different header for first page

mpdf, php

Solution

As you wrote, `SetHTMLHeader` and `SetHTMLFooter` apply to the entire document. If you want different headers / footers for the first page you will have to remove both

$mpdf->SetHTMLHeader($header);
$mpdf->SetHTMLFooter($footer);

And do it like so:

- In your PDF's HTML code, place right after the `<body>` tag the different header definitions like so:

<htmlpageheader name="firstpage" style="display:none">
    <div style="text-align:center">First Page</div>
</htmlpageheader>

<htmlpageheader name="otherpages" style="display:none">
    <div style="text-align:center">{PAGENO}</div>
</htmlpageheader>

- Set your headers like this (still in you first page's code)

<sethtmlpageheader name="firstpage" value="on" show-this-page="1" />
<sethtmlpageheader name="otherpages" value="on" />

This turns on both headers but on the first page shows the "firstpage" header.

- Same goes for footers.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

There are actually a few ways to go about it. They are all documented here. I chose to write here the one I think is the most straight forward and will easily work, but I recommend you read the docs and choose the one that best suits your needs.

Problem

I am working on quotation software where I am using mpdf for quotation generation using HTML format. Header are set by code below. ``` $mpdf->SetHTMLHeader($header); $mpdf=>SetHTMLFooter($footer); ``` Which applies uniformly to all pages. But I need different header to first page. How should I achieve it?

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