I'm trying to use this script to save a html table to an Excel file, and it works fine, however it doesn't come up in the proper name, but rather with a random string. And I can't see why .
I call it with:
<input type="button" onclick="tableToExcel('tablename', 'name')" value="Export to Excel">
code
var tableToExcel = (function() {
var uri = 'data:application/vnd.ms-excel;base64,'
, 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><x:ExcelWorkbook><x:ExcelWorksheets><x:ExcelWorksheet><x:Name>{worksheet}</x:Name><x:WorksheetOptions><x:DisplayGridlines/></x:WorksheetOptions></x:ExcelWorksheet></x:ExcelWorksheets></x:ExcelWorkbook></xml><![endif]--></head><body><table>{table}</table></body></html>'
, base64 = function(s) { return window.btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(s))) }
, format = function(s, c) { return s.replace(/{(\w+)}/g, function(m, p) { return c[p]; }) }
return function(table, name) {
if (!table.nodeType) table = document.getElementById(table)
var ctx = {worksheet: name || 'Worksheet', table: table.innerHTML}
window.location.href = uri + base64(format(template, ctx))
}
})()
The 3 code lines above doesn't work in my case, but here what I found and I hope it could help.
You can use
download
attribute supported by modern browsera fora
anchor element. First modify your HTML by adding an invisible anchor:Notice also that the call to function
tableToExcel
now has 3rd parameter - where you specify file name.Now use this modified code of your original function:
Notice last 3 code lines: Instead of assigning URL to window - they assign it to the new anchor, then use new
download
attribute to force download as the given file name and then simple callclick()
method of the anchor.Give it a try.