I currently have a working Excel export from a to a downloadable excel file. However, in my table (on the website) the contents of cells links to a seperate system (Listing customers in a table, and the link wrapped around the customer name will take you to our CRM and onto the customer). Also in the last column I have two images that acts as buttons/links to change a value in that row.
However I dont want these links and images exported into the Excel - I just want the contents of the cells.
Heres the code (javascript / jquery.table2excel.js):
//table2excel.js
(function ( $, window, document, undefined ) {
var pluginName = "table2excel",
defaults = {
exclude: ".noExl",
name: "Table2Excel"
};
// The actual plugin constructor
function Plugin ( element, options ) {
this.element = element;
// jQuery has an extend method which merges the contents of two or
// more objects, storing the result in the first object. The first object
// is generally empty as we don't want to alter the default options for
// future instances of the plugin
this.settings = $.extend( {}, defaults, options );
this._defaults = defaults;
this._name = pluginName;
this.init();
}
Plugin.prototype = {
init: function () {
var e = this;
e.template = "<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" xmlns:x=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>";
e.template += "<x:ExcelWorkbook><x:ExcelWorksheets><x:ExcelWorksheet><x:Name>{worksheet}</x:Name><x:WorksheetOptions>";
e.template += "<x:DisplayGridlines/></x:WorksheetOptions></x:ExcelWorksheet></x:ExcelWorksheets></x:ExcelWorkbook></xml><![endif]--></head><body><table>{table}</table></body></html>";
e.tableRows = "";
// get contents of table except for exclude
$(e.element).find("tr").not(this.settings.exclude).each(function (i,o) {
e.tableRows += "<tr>" + $(o).html() + "</tr>";
});
this.tableToExcel(this.tableRows, this.settings.name);
},
tableToExcel: function (table, name) {
var e = this;
e.uri = "data:application/vnd.ms-excel;base64,";
e.base64 = function (s) {
return window.btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(s)));
};
e.format = function (s, c) {
return s.replace(/{(\w+)}/g, function (m, p) {
return c[p];
});
};
e.ctx = {
worksheet: name || "Worksheet",
table: table
};
window.location.href = e.uri + e.base64(e.format(e.template, e.ctx));
}
};
$.fn[ pluginName ] = function ( options ) {
this.each(function() {
if ( !$.data( this, "plugin_" + pluginName ) ) {
$.data( this, "plugin_" + pluginName, new Plugin( this, options ) );
}
});
// chain jQuery functions
return this;
};
})( jQuery, window, document );
Update 1:
Did not work replacing
e.tableRows += "" + $(o).html() + "";
with
e.tableRows += "" + $(o).text() + "";
The result was that the tags were indeed stripped, but all columns got merged into one single column.
