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Exports a given HTML table to CSV format when passed its string id attribute as a parameter. Example: download_table_as_csv("myTable")
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
table {
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
border-collapse: collapse;
width: 100%;
}
td, th {
border: 1px solid #dddddd;
text-align: left;
padding: 8px;
}
tr:nth-child(even) {
background-color: #dddddd;
}
</style>
<script>
// Quick and simple export target #table_id into a csv
function download_table_as_csv(table_id, separator = ',') {
// Select rows from table_id
var rows = document.querySelectorAll('table#' + table_id + ' tr');
// Construct csv
var csv = [];
for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {
var row = [], cols = rows[i].querySelectorAll('td, th');
for (var j = 0; j < cols.length; j++) {
// Clean innertext to remove multiple spaces and jumpline (break csv)
var data = cols[j].innerText.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm, '').replace(/(\s\s)/gm, ' ')
// Escape double-quote with double-double-quote (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17808511/properly-escape-a-double-quote-in-csv)
data = data.replace(/"/g, '""');
// Push escaped string
row.push('"' + data + '"');
}
csv.push(row.join(separator));
}
var csv_string = csv.join('\n');
// Download it
var filename = 'export_' + table_id + '_' + new Date().toLocaleDateString() + '.csv';
var link = document.createElement('a');
link.style.display = 'none';
link.setAttribute('target', '_blank');
link.setAttribute('href', 'data:text/csv;charset=utf-8,' + encodeURIComponent(csv_string));
link.setAttribute('download', filename);
document.body.appendChild(link);
link.click();
document.body.removeChild(link);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h2>HTML Table</h2>
<table id="myTable">
<tr>
<th>Company</th>
<th>Contact</th>
<th>Country</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Alfreds Futterkiste</td>
<td>Maria Anders</td>
<td>Germany</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Centro comercial Moctezuma</td>
<td>Francisco Chang</td>
<td>Mexico</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ernst Handel</td>
<td>Roland Mendel</td>
<td>Austria</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Island Trading</td>
<td>Helen Bennett</td>
<td>UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Laughing Bacchus Winecellars</td>
<td>Yoshi Tannamuri</td>
<td>Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Magazzini Alimentari Riuniti</td>
<td>Giovanni Rovelli</td>
<td>Italy</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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