Uncaught exception 'DOMPDF_Exception' with message 'No block-level parent found. - Version 0.8.2/php 5.6.33

[Mark Fischer]

Last night my centos server updated to php 5.6.33 and dompdf started throwing the following error.  I updated to version 0.8.2 and get the same error.  I used dompdf on a known good file, it worked fine yesterday before the php update, and I got the same error.  I have searched the issues on github.  Any ideas?

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'DOMPDF_Exception' with message 'No block-level parent found.  Not good.' in /home/.../dompdf/include/inline_positioner.cls.php:38

Stack trace:

#0 /home/..../dompdf/include/frame_decorator.cls.php(546): Inline_Positioner->position()

#1 /home/..../dompdf/include/text_frame_reflower.cls.php(331): Frame_Decorator->position()

#2 /home/..../dompdf/include/frame_decorator.cls.php(556): Text_Frame_Reflower->reflow(NULL)

#3 /home/..../dompdf/include/page_frame_reflower.cls.php(138): Frame_Decorator->reflow()

#4 /home/..../dompdf/include/frame_decorator.cls.php(556): Page_Frame_Reflower->reflow(NULL)

#5 /home/..../dompdf/include/dompdf.cls.php(817): Frame_Decorator->reflow()

#6 /home/..../dompdf/dompdf.php(257): DOMPDF->render()

#7 {main}

  thrown in /home/..../dompdf/include/inline_positioner.cls.php on line 38

[Priyank Khunt]

I got the exactly same issue as like you that the centos server updated on 17 Jan, 2018.

From that day old version of dompdf was retrieving the same error 'No block-level parent found.  Not good.'

But this is issue is solved in dompdf version 0.8.2.

After long research I got the solution that the extension 'mbstring' should be enable from hosting server.

It was working for me.

Please double check your new updated version and instance that you created, where the older version class name was 'DOMPDF' and the latest version class name is 'Dompdf'.

I hope it may help you.

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Thanks & Regards

Priyank Khunt

[BrianS]

The most common cause seems to be white space outside the HTML document body. Can you post a sample of your HTML?

[Vlad D]

i tried to locate the white space but it was hard

so i just minimized the html template for PDF 

and it removed all the characters that are not important

worked for me