Export HTML table to Excel file

Question

I\'ve been looking into some jQuery plugins that are capable of doing this. I decided to use the one at http://www.jqueryscript.net/table/Export-Html-Table-To-Excel-Spreads

Answer 1

This is the code you can use to export HTML table to excel file with custom file name. I tried on IE11 , Firefox 48 & chrome 51 .

1. Add in the HTML part .
2. Add a button Export to excel , which will call the function "toExcel_()" .

Ps: I'm new to Stackoverflow , So please excuse my format of answering :D

    function toExcel_(){
    var tab_text="";
    var textRange; var j=0;
    tab = document.getElementById('tblExport'); // id of table

    for(j = 0 ; j < tab.rows.length ; j++) 
    {     
        tab_text=tab_text+tab.rows[j].innerHTML+"";
        //tab_text=tab_text+"";
    }

    tab_text=tab_text+"";


        var ua = window.navigator.userAgent;
        var msie = ua.indexOf("MSIE"); 
        var dt = new Date();
        var day = dt.getDate();
        var month = dt.getMonth() + 1;
        var year = dt.getFullYear();
        var hour = dt.getHours();
        var mins = dt.getMinutes();
        var postfix = day + "." + month + "." + year + "_" + hour + "." + mins;


    if (msie > 0 || !!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv\:11\./))      // If Internet Explorer
    {
        txtArea1.document.open("txt/html","replace");
        txtArea1.document.write(tab_text);
        txtArea1.document.close();
        txtArea1.focus(); 
        sa=txtArea1.document.execCommand("SaveAs",true,"Report.xls");
    }  
    else // For Chrome and firefox (Other broswers not tested)
    {

        uriContent = "data:application/vnd.ms-excel," + encodeURIComponent(tab_text);


        var sa = document.createElement("a");
        sa.setAttribute("href", uriContent);
        sa.setAttribute("download", "Report"+postfix +".xls");
        document.body.appendChild(sa); // Required for FF

       sa.click();
    }


    return (sa);

}