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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")
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<!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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