laravel-dompdf: DOMPDF_Exception "No block-level parent found. Not good."

The solution from @frin seems to be doing the trick! Better than debugging your html template. I used $dompdf->set_option('enable_html5_parser', TRUE); to enable the option.

Removing the entire HEAD section fixed my issue. Use inline styles, like an EDM.

Thanks for that link @vaites I used another better solution on that page which is:

use Dompdf\Options; $options = new Options(); $options->set(‘enable_html5_parser’, true); $dompdf = new Dompdf($options);

You have to set option enable_html5_parser to true, then it works again with libxml2 2.9.5 or newer. This also fixed the issue of “Cannot redeclare …” function, if you had any PHP functions inside the template/HTML.

Guys, the problem in CSS. I removed the CSS and it worked. DOMPDF use CSS 2.1.

Change:

public function loadView($view, $data = array(), $mergeData = array(), $encoding = null){
     $html = $this->view->make($view, $data, $mergeData)->render();
     return $this->loadHTML($html, $encoding);
 }

To:

public function loadView($view, $data = array(), $mergeData = array(), $encoding = null){
     $html = $this->view->make($view, $data, $mergeData)->render();
     $html = preg_replace('/>\s+</', '><', $html);
     return $this->loadHTML($html, $encoding);
 }

in /vendor/barryvdh/laravel-dompdf/src/PDF.php

Notice: $html = preg_replace('/>\s+</', '><', $html); in the second one.

NEVER change the code in your vendor folder. A pull request may be better than that. The next time you try to update the code, it will override the change and you are back to square 1. Plus how will you deploy? Normally the vendor folder is not supposed to be version controlled, so your change will not go beyond your local code.

My fix came with adding the following styling in the template:html, body {display: block;}

Had the same issue, for me it was caused by the html tag not being detected as a block-level parent. Had to add the following CSS to fix it: html, body { display: block; }

I was able to fix this error by remove this CSS definition in de body section

        body {
           ...
           display: table;
           ...
        } 

Switched everything back on, even the fonts (who are responsible for massive delay when included) and it worked, so the display:table is the culprit here.