How to Convert an HTML Table into Excel Spreadsheet using jQuery?

In this article, we will learn how to convert an HTML table into an Excel sheet using jQuery and jQuery plugins. In this, firstly, we know the HTML table structure in detail. The conversion of the HTML table into an Excel sheet is beneficial for the user to create excel reports. It helps us to save time and avoid mistakes while generating the reports.

Following are the various examples of converting an HTML table into Excel using jQuery.

Example 1:

<! DOCTYPE html>          
<html lang = "en">          
<head>          
  <title> How to Convert an HTML Table into Excel Spreadsheet using jQuery ?
 </title>                    
  <meta charset = "utf-8">          
  <meta name = "viewport" content="width = device-width, initial-scale = 1">     
  <script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"> </script>    
</head>       
<style>
body
{
    font-size: 12pt;
    font-family: Calibri;
    padding : 10px;
}

table
{
    border: 1px solid black;
	width: 90%;
	text-align: center;
	font-weight: bold;
    
}
th
{
    border: 1px solid black;
    padding: 5px;
    background-color :grey;
    color: white;
    
}
td
{
    border: 1px solid black;
    padding: 5px;
}
button
{
  height: 6vh;
  width: 22vw;  
  min-width: 160px;
  min-height: 50px;  
  margin: 1vw;  
  cursor: pointer;  
  font-size: 1.4rem;
  font-weight: 700;
  letter-spacing: 0.07rem;  
  position: relative;
  overflow: hidden;
  color: black;
}

button:nth-of-type(1)
{
  transition: color .4s ease-in-out, background-color 1.5s ease-in-out;
  
}
button:nth-of-type(1):hover
{
  color: #ec1111;
}
button:nth-of-type(1)::after
{
  content: ' ';
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  left: -100%;
  background-color: red;
  height:10%;
  width: 100%;
  
  transition: all .4s ease-in-out;
}

button:nth-of-type(1):hover::after
{
  left: 0;
}
h2 {
  position: relative;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  font-family: "Raleway", sans-serif;
  font-weight: 300;
  font-size: 50px;
  color: #c70909;
  -webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;
  -o-transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;
  transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;
  text-align: center;
background-color: hsl(200, 50%, 20%);
color: hsl(400, 20%, 90%);
}
h3 {
  position: relative;
  padding: 10;
  margin: 10;
  font-family: "Raleway", sans-serif;
  font-weight: 300;
  font-size: 20px;
  color: #c70909;
  -webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;
  -o-transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;
  transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;
  text-align: center;
color: hsl(400, 20%, 90%);
}
input
{
    font-size: 12pt;
    font-family: Calibri;
}
body {
  text-transform: uppercase;
  text-align: center;
  white-space: nowrap;
  color: #fff;
  background-color: #E1332D;
}
body > * {
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    font-family: sans-serif;
    color : #89d78f;
}

</style>
<body>
  <h2> Example </h2>
  <h3> How to Convert an HTML Table into Excel Spreadsheet using jQuery? </h3>    
<br />
<br />
<table id = "theTable">
  <tbody>
    <tr class = "header">
      <th> Name </th>
      <th> Class </th>
      <th> Roll No </th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td> Ram </td>
      <td> BA </td>
      <td> 1 </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td> Ramu </td>
      <td> BA </td>
      <td> 2 </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td> Rama </td>
      <td> BA </td>
      <td> 3 </td>
    </tr>
	<tr>
      <td> Ranju </td>
      <td> BSC </td>
      <td> 4 </td>
    </tr>
	<tr>
      <td> Ranjan </td>
      <td> BCA </td>
      <td> 5 </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
<button id = "btnExport" onClick = "fnExcelReport()"> Export to Excel </button>
<iframe id = "dummyFrame" style = "display:none"> </iframe>
<script>
function fnExcelReport() {
  var table = document.getElementById('theTable'); 
  var tableHTML = table.outerHTML;
  var fileName = 'download.xls';

  var msie = window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE ");
  if (msie > 0 || !!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv\:11\./)) {
    dummyFrame.document.open('txt/html', 'replace');
    dummyFrame.document.write(tableHTML);
    dummyFrame.document.close();
    dummyFrame.focus();
    return dummyFrame.document.execCommand('SaveAs', true, fileName);
  }
  else {
    var a = document.createElement('a');
    tableHTML = tableHTML.replace(/  /g, '').replace(/ /g, '%20'); 
    a.href = 'data:application/vnd.ms-excel,' + tableHTML;
    a.setAttribute('download', fileName);
    document.body.appendChild(a);
    a.click();
    document.body.removeChild(a);
  }
}
</script>
</body>
</html>

Explanation:

In the above example, we have created an example of converting the HTML table data into an excel sheet. In this, firstly, we create an HTML table with after that we have used the jQuery code to create an excel sheet. In this, we have a button to download the html code into excel format. This excel sheet is downloaded with the download name. We can also change this name according to their convenience.

Output:

Following is the output of this example.

How to Convert an HTML Table into Excel Spreadsheet using jQuery?

Example 2:

<! DOCTYPE html>          
<html lang = "en">          
<head>          
  <title> How to Convert an HTML Table into Excel Spreadsheet using jQuery Plugin?
 </title>                    
  <meta charset = "utf-8">          
  <meta name = "viewport" content="width = device-width, initial-scale = 1">     
  <script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.4/jquery.min.js"> </script>
 <script src = "E:/javatpoint/jquery.table2excel.js"> </script> 
</head>       
<style>
body
{
    font-size: 12pt;
    font-family: Calibri;
    padding : 10px;
}

table
{
    border: 1px solid black;
	width: 90%;
	text-align: center;
	font-weight: bold;
    
}
th {
  padding: 20px 15px;
  text-align: center;
  font-weight: 500;
  font-size: 32px;
  color: #fff;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  border: 1px solid black;
  background-color :grey;
}
td {
   border: 1px solid black;
    padding: 5px;
  text-align: center;
  vertical-align: middle;
  font-weight: 300;
  font-size: 22px;
  color: pink;
}

button
{
  height: 6vh;
  width: 22vw;  
  min-width: 160px;
  min-height: 50px;  
  margin: 1vw;  
  cursor: pointer;  
  font-size: 1.4rem;
  font-weight: 700;
  letter-spacing: 0.07rem;  
  position: relative;
  overflow: hidden;
  color: black;
}

button:nth-of-type(1)
{
  transition: color .4s ease-in-out, background-color 1.5s ease-in-out;
  
}
button:nth-of-type(1):hover
{
  color: #ec1111;
}
button:nth-of-type(1)::after
{
  content:  ' ';
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  left: -100%;
  background-color: red;
  height:10%;
  width: 100%;
  transition: all .4s ease-in-out;
}
td:nth-child(even) {
            color: white;
			
        }
button:nth-of-type(1):hover::after
{
  left:0;
}
h2 {
  position: relative;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  font-family: "Raleway", sans-serif;
  font-weight: 300;
  font-size: 50px;
  color: #c70909;
  -webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;
  -o-transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;
  transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;
  text-align: center;
background-color: hsl(200, 50%, 20%);
color: hsl(400, 20%, 90%);
}
h3 {
  position: relative;
  padding: 10;
  margin: 10;
  font-family: "Raleway", sans-serif;
  font-weight: 300;
  font-size: 20px;
  color: #c70909;
  -webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;
  -o-transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;
  transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;
  text-align: center;
color: hsl(400, 20%, 90%);
}
input
{
    font-size: 12pt;
    font-family: Calibri;
}
body {
  text-transform: uppercase;
  text-align: center;
  white-space: nowrap;
  color: #fff;
  background-color: #E1332D;
}
body > * {
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    font-family: sans-serif;
    color : #89d78f;
}
tr:nth-child(even) {
            background-color: #423735;
			
        }
</style>
<body>

  <h2> Example </h2>
  <h3> How to Convert an HTML Table into Excel Spreadsheet using jQuery Plugin? </h3>    
<br />
<br />
<table class = "table2excel" data-tableName = "Test Table 1">
			<tbody>
 <tr class = "noExl">
      <th> Sr. No </th>
      <th> Name </th>
      <th> Class </th>
      <th> Roll No </th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
	   <td> 1 </td>
      <td> Ram </td>
      <td> BA </td>
      <td> 11 </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
	 <td> 2 </td>
      <td> Ramu </td>
      <td> BA </td>
      <td> 21 </td>
    </tr>
	<tr>
	 <td> 3 </td>
      <td> Samu </td>
      <td> BCA </td>
      <td> 25 </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
	 <td> 4 </td>
      <td> Rama </td>
      <td> BA </td>
      <td> 32 </td>
    </tr>
	<tr>
	 <td> 5 </td>
      <td> Sam </td>
      <td> BSA </td>
      <td> 34 </td>
    </tr>
	<tr>
	 <td> 6 </td>
      <td> Ranju </td>
      <td> BSC </td>
      <td> 42 </td>
    </tr>
	<tr>
	 <td> 7 </td>
      <td> Ranjan </td>
      <td> BCA </td>
      <td> 51 </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
<button class = "exportToExcel"> Export to XLS </button>
<script>
	$(function() {
	$(".exportToExcel").click(function(e){
	var table = $(this).prev('.table2excel');
	if(table && table.length){
	var preserveColors = (table.hasClass('table2excel_with_colors') ? true : false);
	$(table).table2excel({
	exclude: ".noExl",
	name: "Excel Document Name",
	filename: "myFileName" + new Date().toISOString().replace(/[\-\:\.]/g, "") + ".xls",
				fileext: ".xls",
				exclude_img: true,
				exclude_links: true,
				exclude_inputs: true,
			       preserveColors: preserveColors
						});
					}
				});
				
			});
		</script>
	</body>
</html>

Explanation:

In the above example, we have created an example of how to convert the html table to an excel sheet using the jQuery plugin. In this, we have downloaded the plugin file name jquery.table2excel.js and added it in the header section of the document. In this, we have a button to download the html code into excel format. In this, excel sheet is downloaded with the name generated by this pattern

 filename: "myFileName" + new Date().toISOString().replace(/[\-\:\.]/g, "") + ".xls",

We can also change the name according to their convenience.

Output:

Following is the output of this example.

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