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Asked: 2026-06-04T15:39:48+00:00

I’ve just installed grails rendering plugin and would like to use it for generating

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I’ve just installed grails rendering plugin and would like to use it for generating PDF files. I’ve created simple template, but it is exported without any css styles. If I simply render template from grails, then page appears with all styles in my web browser.

So, my question is – how to correctly include CSS file during PDF generation process?

My template:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="${resource(dir:'css',file:'main.css')}" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="${resource(dir:'css',file:'webui.css')}" />
    <r:layoutResources/>
    <title>Report</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="content">
        <div id="center-container">
        <h1><g:message code="default.list.label" args="[entityName]" /></h1>
        <table>
            <thead>
                <tr>
                    <th class="trip">trip</th>
                </tr>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
                <tr class="odd">
                    <td>
                        ${tip}
                    </td>
                </tr>
            </tbody>
        </table>
</div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

And I have style .odd in my webui.css, but it is not applied on the row.

Any help would be appreciated.

Edit1: I found out that styles are fetched, if I do it in the following way:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="my_appname${resource(dir:'css',file:'main.css')}" />

But I don’t want to hardcode application name (this is also a base context path). Is there a better way to generate proper link to a css file?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try setting grails.serverURL in Config.groovy to the app url (ex. grails.serverURL=http://localhost:8080/appname). The plugin resolves all relative links via this setting

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