Table to Excel 2

Export HTML table to valid excel file effortlessly.
This library uses exceljs/exceljs under the hood to create the excel.
(Initial version of this library was using protobi/js-xlsx, it can be found here)

Installation

Browser

Just add a script tag:

<script type="text/javascript" src="../dist/tableToExcel.js"></script>

Node

npm install @linways/table-to-excel --save

import TableToExcel from "@linways/table-to-excel";

Usage

Create your HTML table as normal.
To export content of table #table1 run:

TableToExcel.convert(document.getElementById("table1"));

or

TableToExcel.convert(document.getElementById("table1"), {
  name: "table1.xlsx",
  sheet: {
    name: "Sheet 1"
  }
});

Check this pen for working example.

Cell Types

Cell types can be set using the following data attributes:

Example:

<!-- for setting a cell type as number -->
<td data-t="n">2500</td>
<!-- for setting a cell type as date -->
<td data-t="d">05-23-2018</td>
<!-- for setting a cell type as boolean. String "true/false" will be accepted as Boolean-->
<td data-t="b">true</td>
<!-- for setting a cell type as boolean using integer. 0 will be false and any non zero value will be true -->
<td data-t="b">0</td>
<!-- For adding hyperlink -->
<td data-hyperlink="https://google.com">Google</td>

Cell Styling

All styles are set using data attributes on td tags.
There are 5 types of attributes: data-f-*, data-a-*, data-b-*, data-fill-* and data-num-fmt which corresponds to five top-level attributes font, alignment, border, fill and numFmt.

BORDER_STYLES: thin, dotted, dashDot, hair, dashDotDot, slantDashDot, mediumDashed, mediumDashDotDot, mediumDashDot, medium, double, thick

Exclude Cells and rows

To exclude a cell or a row from the exported excel add data-exclude="true" to the corresponding td or tr.
Example:

<!-- Exclude entire row -->
<tr data-exclude="true">
  <td>Excluded row</td>
  <td>Something</td>
</tr>
<!-- Exclude a single cell -->
<tr>
  <td>Included Cell</td>
  <td data-exclude="true">Excluded Cell</td>
  <td>Included Cell</td>
</tr>

Column Width

Column width’s can be set by specifying data-cols-width in the <table> tag.
data-cols-width accepts comma separated column widths specified in character count .
data-cols-width="10,20" will set width of first coulmn as width of 10 charaters and second column as 20 characters wide.
Example:

<table data-cols-width="10,20,30">
  ...
</table>

Row Height

Row Height can be set by specifying data-height in the <tr> tag.
Example:

<tr data-height="42.5">
  <td>Cell 1</td>
  <td>Cell 2</td>
</tr>

Release Changelog

1.0.0

Migration Guide for migrating from V0.2.1 to V1.0.0

• Changed the backend to Exceexceljs/exceljslJS
• Added border color
• Option to set style and color for all borders
• Exclude row
• Added text underline
• Added support for hyperlinks
• Text intent
• RTL support
• Extra alignment options
• String “true/false” will be accepted as Boolean
• Changed border style values
• Text rotation values changed

1.0.2

• Fixed bug in handling multiple columns merges in a sheet

1.0.3

• Option to specify row height