Pdf view using iTextSharp - asp.net-mvc

Question

I wanna pdf view using ITextSharp , i use datatables to table data from external API using JQuery .. I searched for it but i found that they use data from Model and i'm not dealing with model as i deal with external API
I tried some codes but no result ..
ReportController:
[HttpPost]
[ValidateInput(false)]
public FileResult Export(string GridHtml)
{
using (MemoryStream stream = new System.IO.MemoryStream())
{
StringReader sr = new StringReader(GridHtml);
Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 10f, 10f);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, stream);
pdfDoc.Open();
XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance().ParseXHtml(writer, pdfDoc, sr);
pdfDoc.Close();
return File(stream.ToArray(), "application/pdf", "StudentDetails.pdf");
}
}
Index.cshtml:
#using (Html.BeginForm("Export", "Home", FormMethod.Post))
{
<div style="text-align: center;background-color:yellowgreen;width:100%">
<input type="hidden" name="GridHtml" />
#*<input type="submit" id="btnSubmit" value="Export" />*#
<span style="font-family: Arial Black;color:red; font-size:larger;font-style: oblique">Export PDF</span>
<input type="image" id="btnSubmit" src="~/Images/Pdf.png" value="Pdf" />
</div>
<br />
#*<input type="hidden" name="GridHtml" />
<input type="submit" id="btnSubmit" value="Export" />*#
<div id="Grid">
<table class="table table-bordered table-hover" id="VacationsReport_table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>تاريخ الطلب</th>
<th>كود الموظف</th>
<th>الوظيفة</th>
<th>نوع الاجازة</th>
<th>بداية الاجازة</th>
<th>نهاية الاجازة</th>
<th>سبب الاجازة</th>
<th>مدة الاجازة</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody></tbody>
</table>
</div>
.. Any Suggestions ?
search button display table with data , then clicking Export should pdf all view ..

Answer 1

The HTML shown below is the raw HTML table element, before it has been enhanced by DataTables:
<table id="example" class="display nowrap" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Start date</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
<th>Office</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Start date</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Tiger Nixon</td>
<td>System Architect</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>61</td>
<td>2011/04/25</td>
<td>$320,800</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Garrett Winters</td>
<td>Accountant</td>
<td>Tokyo</td>
<td>63</td>
<td>2011/07/25</td>
<td>$170,750</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ashton Cox</td>
<td>Junior Technical Author</td>
<td>San Francisco</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>2009/01/12</td>
<td>$86,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cedric Kelly</td>
<td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
<td>Edinburgh</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>2012/03/29</td>
<td>$433,060</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#example').DataTable( {
dom: 'Bfrtip',
buttons: [
'copy', 'csv', 'excel', 'pdf', 'print'
]
} );
} );
The following CSS library files are loaded for use in this example to provide the styling of the table:
https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.16/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css
https://cdn.datatables.net/buttons/1.5.1/css/buttons.dataTables.min.css
please find following link this will help you
https://datatables.net/extensions/buttons/examples/initialisation/export.html