HeaderViewHelper and FooterViewHelper¶

These ViewHelpers can be used to set header and footer for pages. Thereby they are always applied to one of the following scopes:

• document: The header and footer are applied to all the pages.
• thisPage: The header and footer are only applied to the first page they are set on.
• thisPageIncludingPageBreaks The header and footer are only applied to the page they are set on including sub pages triggered by an auto page break or the PageBreakViewHelper.

The scope is implicitly set depending on where you place the ViewHelpers. ViewHelpers that are descendants of the DocumentViewHelper have as default scope document applied. ViewHelpers that are descendants of the PageViewHelper have as default scope thisPageIncludingPageBreaks applied. It is also possible to set the scope explicitly using the scope ViewHelper attribute.

ViewHelpers that are defined within a PageViewHelper may overwrite ViewHelpers that are defined on document level. Please see the examples section for an extended example of the header and footer usage.

Document wide header and footer

<pdf:document>
        <pdf:header>
                <pdf:text>Header</pdf:text>
        </pdf:header>
        <pdf:footer>
                <pdf:text>Footer</pdf:text>
        </pdf:footer>

        <pdf:page>
                <pdf:text>Content goes here</pdf:text>
        </pdf:page>
</pdf:document>

Page wide header and footer

<pdf:document>
        <pdf:page>
                <pdf:header scope="thisPage" posY="15">
                        <pdf:text>Header</pdf:text>
                </pdf:header>
                <pdf:footer posY="-15">
                        <pdf:text>Footer with default scope thisPageIncludingPageBreaks</pdf:text>
                </pdf:footer>

                <pdf:text>Content goes here</pdf:text>
        </pdf:page>
</pdf:document>