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dompdf inserts blank page at end of document

I'm generating a pdf document using dompdf 0.6.0, and have a strange issue where a blank page is being created at the end. My (simplified) html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>PDF</title>
<style type="text/css">
@page{ margin: 0;}

.page{
    width: 612px; 
    height: 792px; 
    overflow: hidden; 
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica; 
    position: relative; 
    color: #545554;
    page-break-after: always;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="page" style="background-image: url(page1.jpg);">
...
</div>

<div class="page" style="background-image: url(page2.jpg);"></div>

<div class="page" style="background-image: url(page3.jpg); color: white;">
...
</div>
</body>
</html>

The first three pages look amazing, but there is a blank page at the end. I've read dompdf is picky about nesting and compliance and such, but the html is super clean and checks out.

Solution

  • Turns out the end </body> and </html> tags were causing the extra page. I removed them, and results are as expected.

    I'd imagine its a problem with dompdf, but I spent quite awhile trying to solve the issue and figured this might be of help to others.

    Update:

    As Joe mentions in the comments, moving the </body> and </html> tags to the same line as your closing </div> works, and remains valid html.