API Reference ============= .. currentmodule:: weasyprint This page is for WeasyPrint |version|. See :doc:`changelog ` for older versions. API Stability ------------- Everything described here is considered “public”: this is what you can rely on. We will try to maintain backward-compatibility, and we really often do, but there is no hard promise. Anything else should not be used outside of WeasyPrint itself. We reserve the right to change it or remove it at any point. Use it at your own risk, or have dependency to a specific WeasyPrint version. Versioning ---------- WeasyPrint provides frequent major releases, and minor releases with only bug fixes. Versioning is close to what many browsers do, including Firefox and Chrome: big major numbers, small minor numbers. Even if each version does not break the API, each version does break the way documents are rendered, which is what really matters at the end. Providing minor versions would give the illusion that developers can just update WeasyPrint without checking that everything works. Unfortunately, we have the same problem as the other browsers: when a new version is released, most of the user's websites are rendered exactly the same, but a small part is not. And the only ways to know that, for web developers, are to read the changelog and to check that their pages are correctly rendered. More about this choice can be found in issue `#900`_. .. _#900: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/issues/900 Command-line API ---------------- .. autofunction:: weasyprint.__main__.main(argv=sys.argv) Python API ---------- .. autoclass:: HTML(input, **kwargs) :members: .. autoclass:: CSS(input, **kwargs) .. autoclass:: Attachment(input, **kwargs) .. autofunction:: default_url_fetcher .. autodata:: DEFAULT_OPTIONS .. module:: weasyprint.document .. autoclass:: Document :members: .. autoclass:: DocumentMetadata() :members: .. autoclass:: Page() :members: .. module:: weasyprint.text.fonts .. autoclass:: FontConfiguration() .. module:: weasyprint.css.counters .. autoclass:: CounterStyle() Supported Features ------------------ URLs ~~~~ WeasyPrint can read normal files, HTTP, FTP and `data URIs`_. It will follow HTTP redirects but more advanced features like cookies and authentication are currently not supported, although a custom :ref:`URL fetcher ` can help. .. _data URIs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme HTML ~~~~ Supported HTML Tags +++++++++++++++++++ Many HTML elements are implemented in CSS through the HTML5 `User-Agent stylesheet`_. Some elements need special treatment: * The ```` element, if present, determines the base for relative URLs. * CSS stylesheets can be embedded in `` … Automatic hyphenation can be disabled again with the ``manual`` value: .. code-block:: css html { hyphens: auto } a[href]::after { content: ' [' attr(href) ']'; hyphens: manual } The other features provided by `CSS Text Module Level 3`_ are **not** supported: - the ``line-break`` property; - the ``match-parent`` value of the ``text-align`` property; - the ``text-indent`` and ``hanging-punctuation`` properties. The other features provided by `CSS Text Module Level 4`_ are **not** supported: - the ``text-space-collapse`` and ``text-space-trim`` properties; - the ``text-wrap``, ``wrap-before``, ``wrap-after`` and ``wrap-inside`` properties; - the ``text-align`` property with an alignment character; - the ``pre-wrap-auto`` value of the ``white-space`` property; and - the ``text-spacing`` property. .. _#1153: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/issues/1153 .. _supported by Pyphen: https://github.com/Kozea/Pyphen/tree/main/pyphen/dictionaries .. _hyphenation: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#hyphenation .. _CSS Text Module Level 3: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/ .. _CSS Text Module Level 4: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-4/ CSS Fonts Module Level 3 / 4 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `CSS Fonts Module Level 3`_ is a candidate recommendation describing "how font properties are specified and how font resources are loaded dynamically". WeasyPrint supports the ``font-size``, ``font-stretch``, ``font-style`` and ``font-weight`` properties, coming from CSS 2.1. WeasyPrint also supports the following font features added in Level 3: - ``font-kerning``, - ``font-variant-ligatures``, - ``font-variant-position``, - ``font-variant-caps``, - ``font-variant-numeric``, - ``font-variant-east-asian``, - ``font-feature-settings``, and - ``font-language-override``. ``font-family`` is supported. The string is given to Pango that tries to find a matching font in a way different from what is defined in the recommendation, but that should not be a problem for common use. The shorthand ``font`` and ``font-variant`` properties are supported. WeasyPrint supports the ``@font-face`` rule. WeasyPrint does **not** support the ``@font-feature-values`` rule and the values of ``font-variant-alternates`` other than ``normal`` and ``historical-forms``. The ``font-variant-caps`` property is supported but needs the small-caps variant of the font to be installed. WeasyPrint does **not** simulate missing small-caps fonts. From `CSS Fonts Module Level 4`_ we only support the ``font-variation-settings`` property enabling specific font variations. .. _CSS Fonts Module Level 3: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-fonts-3/ .. _CSS Fonts Module Level 4: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-fonts-4/ CSS Paged Media Module Level 3 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `CSS Paged Media Module Level 3`_ is a working draft including features for paged media "describing how: - page breaks are created and avoided; - the page properties such as size, orientation, margins, border, and padding are specified; - headers and footers are established within the page margins; - content such as page counters are placed in the headers and footers; and - orphans and widows can be controlled." All the features of this draft are available, including: - the ``@page`` rule and the ``:left``, ``:right``, ``:first`` and ``:blank`` selectors; - the page margin boxes; - the page-based counters (with known limitations `#93`_); - the page ``size``, ``bleed`` and ``marks`` properties; - the named pages. .. _CSS Paged Media Module Level 3: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-page-3/ .. _#93: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/issues/93 CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module`_ (GCPM) is a working draft defining "new properties and values, so that authors may bring new techniques (running headers and footers, footnotes, page selection) to paged media". `Page selectors`_ are supported by WeasyPrint. You can select pages according to their position in the document: .. code-block:: css @page :nth(3) { background: red } /* Third page */ @page :nth(2n+1) { background: green } /* Odd pages */ You can also use `running elements`_ to put HTML boxes into the page margins (but the ``start`` parameter of ``element()`` is not supported). Footnotes_ are supported. You can put a box in the footnote area using the ``float: footnote`` property. Footnote markers and footnote calls can be defined using the ``::footnote-marker`` and ``::footnote-call`` pseudo-elements. You can also change the way footnotes are displayed using the ``footnote-display`` property (``compact`` is not supported), and influence over the rendering of difficult pages with ``footnote-policy``. Page groups (``:nth(X of pagename)`` pseudo-class) are not supported. .. _CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-gcpm-3/ .. _Page selectors: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-gcpm-3/#document-page-selectors .. _running elements: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-gcpm-3/#running-elements .. _Footnotes: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-gcpm-3/#footnotes CSS Generated Content Module Level 3 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `CSS Generated Content Module Level 3`_ is a working draft helping "authors [who] sometimes want user agents to render content that does not come from the document tree. One familiar example of this is numbered headings […]. Similarly, authors may want the user agent to insert the word "Figure" before the caption of a figure […], or replacing elements with images or other multimedia content." `Named strings`_ are supported by WeasyPrint. You can define strings related to the first or last element of a type present on a page, and display these strings in page borders. This feature is really useful to add the title of the current chapter at the top of the pages of a book for example. The named strings can embed static strings, counters, cross-references, tag contents and tag attributes. .. code-block:: css @top-center { content: string(chapter) } h2 { string-set: chapter "Current chapter: " content() } `Cross-references`_ retrieve counter or content values from targets (anchors or identifiers) in the current document: .. code-block:: css a::after { content: ", on page " target-counter(attr(href), page) } a::after { content: ", see " target-text(attr(href)) } In particular, ``target-counter()`` and ``target-text()`` are useful when it comes to tables of contents (see `an example`_). You can also control `PDF bookmarks`_ with WeasyPrint. Using the ``bookmark-level``, ``bookmark-label`` and ``bookmark-state`` properties, you can add bookmarks that will be available in your PDF reader. Bookmarks have already been added in the WeasyPrint's `user agent stylesheet`_, so your generated documents will automatically have bookmarks on headers (from ``

`` to ``

``). But for example, if you have only one top-level ``

`` and do not wish to include it in the bookmarks, add this in your stylesheet: .. code-block:: css h1 { bookmark-level: none } The other features of this module are **not** implemented: - quotes (``content: *-quote``); - leaders (``content: leader()``). .. _CSS Generated Content Module Level 3: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-content-3/ .. _Quotes: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-content-3/#quotes .. _Named strings: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-content-3/#named-strings .. _Cross-references: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-content-3/#cross-references .. _an example: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/pull/652#issuecomment-403276559 .. _PDF bookmarks: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-content-3/#bookmark-generation .. _user agent stylesheet: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/blob/main/weasyprint/css/html5_ua.css CSS Color Module Level 3 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `CSS Color Module Level 3`_ is a recommendation defining "CSS properties which allow authors to specify the foreground color and opacity of an element". Its main goal is to specify how colors are defined, including color keywords and the ``#rgb``, ``#rrggbb``, ``rgb()``, ``rgba()``, ``hsl()``, ``hsla()`` syntaxes. Opacity and alpha compositing are also defined in this document. This recommendation is fully implemented in WeasyPrint, except the deprecated System Colors. .. _CSS Color Module Level 3: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-3/ CSS Transforms Module Level 1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `CSS Transforms Module Level 1`_ working draft "describes a coordinate system within each element is positioned. This coordinate space can be modified with the transform property. Using transform, elements can be translated, rotated and scaled in two or three dimensional space." WeasyPrint supports the ``transform`` and ``transform-origin`` properties, and all the 2D transformations (``matrix``, ``rotate``, ``translate``, ``translateX``, ``translateY``, ``scale``, ``scaleX``, ``scaleY``, ``skew``, ``skewX``, ``skewY``). WeasyPrint does **not** support the ``transform-style``, ``perspective``, ``perspective-origin`` and ``backface-visibility`` properties, and all the 3D transformations (``matrix3d``, ``rotate3d``, ``rotateX``, ``rotateY``, ``rotateZ``, ``translate3d``, ``translateZ``, ``scale3d``, ``scaleZ``). .. _CSS Transforms Module Level 1: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-transforms-1/ CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3`_ is a candidate recommendation defining properties dealing "with the decoration of the border area and with the background of the content, padding and border areas". The `border part`_ of this module is supported, as it is already included in the the CSS 2.1 specification. WeasyPrint supports the `background part`_ of this module (allowing multiple background layers per box), including the ``background``, ``background-color``, ``background-image``, ``background-repeat``, ``background-attachment``, ``background-position``, ``background-clip``, ``background-origin`` and ``background-size`` properties. WeasyPrint also supports the `rounded corners part`_ of this module, including the ``border-radius`` property. WeasyPrint does **not** support the `border images part`_ of this module, including the ``border-image``, ``border-image-source``, ``border-image-slice``, ``border-image-width``, ``border-image-outset`` and ``border-image-repeat`` properties. WeasyPrint does **not** support the `box shadow part`_ of this module, including the ``box-shadow`` property. This feature has been implemented in a `git branch`_ that is not released, as it relies on raster implementation of shadows. .. _CSS Backgrounds and Borders Level 3: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-backgrounds-3/ .. _border part: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-backgrounds-3/#borders .. _background part: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-backgrounds-3/#backgrounds .. _rounded corners part: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-backgrounds-3/#corners .. _border images part: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-backgrounds-3/#border-images .. _box shadow part: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-backgrounds-3/#misc .. _git branch: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/pull/149 CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3 / 4 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3`_ is a candidate recommendation introducing "additional ways of representing 2D images, for example as a list of URIs denoting fallbacks, or as a gradient", defining "several properties for manipulating raster images and for sizing or positioning replaced elements" and "generic sizing algorithm for replaced elements". The `Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 4`_ is a working draft on the same subject. The ``linear-gradient()``, ``radial-gradient()`` and ``repeating-radial-gradient()`` properties are supported as background images. The the ``url()`` notation is supported, but the ``image()`` notation is **not** supported for background images. The ``object-fit`` and ``object-position`` properties are supported. The ``from-image`` and ``snap`` values of the ``image-resolution`` property are **not** supported, but the ``resolution`` value is supported. The ``image-rendering`` and ``image-orientation`` properties are supported. .. _Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-images-3/ .. _Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 4: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-images-4/ CSS Box Sizing Module Level 3 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `CSS Box Sizing Module Level 3`_ is a candidate recommendation extending "the CSS sizing properties with keywords that represent content-based 'intrinsic' sizes and context-based 'extrinsic' sizes." The new property defined in this document is implemented in WeasyPrint: ``box-sizing``. The ``min-content``, ``max-content`` and ``fit-content()`` sizing values are **not** supported. .. _CSS Box Sizing Module Level 3: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-sizing-3/ CSS Overflow Module Level 3 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `CSS Overflow Module Level 3`_ is a working draft containing "the features of CSS relating to scrollable overflow handling in visual media." The ``overflow`` property is supported, as defined in CSS2. ``overflow-x``, ``overflow-y``, ``overflow-clip-margin``, ``overflow-inline`` and ``overflow-block`` are **not** supported. The ``text-overflow``, ``block-ellipsis``, ``line-clamp``, ``max-lines`` and ``continue`` properties are supported. .. _CSS Overflow Module Level 3: https://www.w3.org/TR/2020/WD-css-overflow-3-20200603/ CSS Values and Units Module Level 3 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `CSS Values and Units Module Level 3`_ defines various units and keywords used in "value definition field of each CSS property". The ``initial`` and ``inherit`` CSS-wide keywords are supported, but the ``unset`` keyword is **not** supported. Quoted strings, URLs and numeric data types are supported. Font-related lengths (``em``, ``ex``, ``ch``, ``rem``), absolute lengths (``cm``, ``mm``, ``q``, ``in``, ``pt``, ``pc``, ``px``), angles (``rad``, ``grad``, ``turn``, ``deg``), resolutions (``dpi``, ``dpcm``, ``dppx``) are supported. The ``attr()`` functional notation is allowed in the ``content`` and ``string-set`` properties. The ``calc()`` function is **not** supported. Viewport-percentage lengths (``vw``, ``vh``, ``vmin``, ``vmax``) are **not** supported. .. _CSS Values and Units Module Level 3: https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/ CSS Multi-column Layout Module ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `CSS Multi-column Layout Module`_ "describes multi-column layouts in CSS, a style sheet language for the web. Using functionality described in the specification, content can be flowed into multiple columns with a gap and a rule between them." Simple multi-column layouts are supported in WeasyPrint. Features such as constrained height, spanning columns or column breaks are **not** supported. Pagination and overflow are not seriously tested. The ``column-width`` and ``column-count`` properties, and the ``columns`` shorthand property are supported. The ``column-gap``, ``column-rule-color``, ``column-rule-style`` and ``column-rule-width`` properties, and the ``column-rule`` shorthand property are supported. The ``break-before``, ``break-after`` and ``break-inside`` properties are supported. The ``column-span`` property is supported for direct children of columns. The ``column-fill`` property is supported, with a column balancing algorithm that should be efficient with simple cases. .. _CSS Multi-column Layout Module: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-multicol-1/ CSS Fragmentation Module Level 3 / 4 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `CSS Fragmentation Module Level 3`_ "describes the fragmentation model that partitions a flow into pages, columns, or regions. It builds on the Page model module and introduces and defines the fragmentation model. It adds functionality for pagination, breaking variable fragment size and orientation, widows and orphans." The `CSS Fragmentation Module Level 4`_ is a working draft on the same subject. The ``break-before``, ``break-after`` and ``break-inside`` properties are supported for pages, but **not** for columns and regions. ``page-break-*`` aliases as defined in CSS2 are supported too. The ``orphans`` and ``widows`` properties are supported. The ``box-decoration-break`` property is supported, but backgrounds are always repeated and not extended through the whole box as it should be with 'slice' value. The ``margin-break`` property is supported. .. _CSS Fragmentation Module Level 3: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-break-3/ .. _CSS Fragmentation Module Level 4: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-break-4/ CSS Custom Properties for Cascading Variables Module Level 1 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `CSS Custom Properties for Cascading Variables Module Level 1`_ "introduces cascading variables as a new primitive value type that is accepted by all CSS properties, and custom properties for defining them." The custom properties and the ``var()`` notation are supported. .. _CSS Custom Properties for Cascading Variables Module Level 1: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-variables/ CSS Text Decoration Module Level 3 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `CSS Text Decoration Module Level 3`_ "contains the features of CSS relating to text decoration, such as underlines, text shadows, and emphasis marks." The ``text-decoration-line``, ``text-decoration-style`` and ``text-decoration-color`` properties are supported, except from the ``wavy`` value of ``text-decoration-style``. The ``text-decoration`` shorthand is also supported. The other properties (``text-underline-position``, ``text-emphasis-*``, ``text-shadow``) are not supported. .. _CSS Text Decoration Module Level 3: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-decor-3/ CSS Flexible Box Layout Module Level 1 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `CSS Flexible Box Layout Module Level 1`_ "describes a CSS box model optimized for user interface design", also known as "flexbox". This module works for simple use cases but is not deeply tested. All the ``flex-*``, ``align-*``, ``justify-*`` and ``order`` properties are supported. The ``flex`` and ``flex-flow`` shorthands are supported too. .. _CSS Flexible Box Layout Module Level 1: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-flexbox-1/ CSS Basic User Interface Module Level 3/4 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The `CSS Basic User Interface Module Level 3/4`_ "enables authors to style user interface related properties and values." The ``outline-width``, ``outline-style``, ``outline-color`` properties and the ``outline`` shorthand are supported. The ``outline-offset`` property is **not** supported. The ``resize``, ``cursor``, ``caret-*`` and ``nav-*`` properties are **not** supported. The ``appearance`` property is supported. When set to ``auto``, it displays form fields as PDF form fields (supported for text inputs, check boxes, text areas, and select only). The ``accent-color`` property is **not** supported.