ExcellentExport.js

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JavaScript export to Excel or CSV.
A quick JavaScript library to create export to Excel/CSV from HTML tables in the browser. No server required.
As part of the new version 3.0.0+, there is support for XLSX. The drawback is that the library is 200+ KB.
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ExcellentExport.js update: JavaScript export to Excel and CSV

Revision history:

3.9.5

Update npm dependencies to fix vulnerabilities

3.9.4

Update npm dependencies to fix vulnerabilities

3.9.3

Fix TypeScript exported types

3.9.0

Cell types and formats!!! Now you can define the cell type and format. For example, you can define a cell as a date or a number. You can also define the format of the cell. For example, you can define a cell as a date with the format "dd/mm/yyyy" or a number with the format "#,##0.00".

3.8.1

Activate XLSX compression by default. The example of index.bigtable.html went from 18Mb to 3Mb.
Update npm dependencies to fix vulnerabilities
Update to latest version of TypeScript
Reduced size of the library from 912 KB to 277 KB!!!

3.8.0

Allow RTL options on the whole file or sheet.
Update npm dependencies to fix vulnerabilities

3.7.3

Fix (#591) remove columns parameter. Now it is not affected by repeated column numbers nor its order.

3.7.2

Update npm dependencies to fix vulnerabilities

3.7.1

Update npm dependencies to fix vulnerabilities
Start using Dependabot and get rid of Dependabot-preview

3.7.0

Added option openAsDownload: boolean. Use this option to download as a file without using an anchor tag. So download can be triggered from a button.
Update npm dependencies to fix vulnerabilities

3.6.0

Added sponsor link to the project ❤️ Sponsor ExcellentExport.js project❤️
Transform the project from JavaScript to TypeScript
Configure Jest as test runner
Update npm dependencies to fix vulnerabilities

3.5.0

Add fixValue and fixArray functions to configuration: these configuration functions can be used to manipulate the values of the cells.
Update npm dependencies to fix vulnerabilities

3.4.3

Update npm dependencies to fix vulnerabilities

3.4.2

Remove ES6 function syntax to support IE11
Update npm dependencies to fix vulnerabilities

3.4.0

Configure TravisCI on GitHub
Update npm dependencies to fix vulnerabilities

3.3.0

Remove columns by index
Filter rows by value
Updated build to Webpack 4.x.x

3.2.1

Update npm dependencies to fix vulnerabilities

3.2.0

Update npm dependencies to fix vulnerabilities

3.1.0

Fix old API for base64 and escaping problem.

3.0.0

XLSX support. This bumps the build size to 640 KB.
New API : ExcellentExport.convert(...)
Autogenerate download filename.
Data input from arrays or HTML Tables.
Multiple sheets for XLS or XLSX formats.

2.1.0

Add Webpack build.
Create UMD JavaScript module. Library can be loaded as a module (import, RequireJS, AMD, etc...) or standalone as window.ExcelentExport.

2.0.3

Fix export as a module.
Changed minifier to UglifyJS.

2.0.2

Fix CSV Chinese characters and other special characters display error in Windows Excel.
Fix URL.createObjectURL(...) on Firefox.

2.0.0

Now it can export to big files +2MB.
Minimum IE 11.
Links open with URL.createObjectURL(...).
NPM package available.
Using Semantic versioning (2.0.0 instead of 2.0).
Module can be loaded standalone or with RequireJS.
Change license to MIT.

1.5

Possibility to select a CSV delimiter.
Bower package available.
Compose package available.

1.4

Add LICENSE.txt with GPL v3
UTF-8 characters fixed.

1.3

Added minified version

1.1

Added CSV data export

1.0

Added Excel data export

Compatibility

Firefox
Chrome
Internet Explorer 11+

Install

npm

npm install excellentexport --save

yarn

yarn add excellentexport

bower

bower install excellentexport

Load

Include script in your HTML:

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

Include script in your HTML using CDN:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/excellentexport@3.4.3/dist/excellentexport.min.js"></script>

Require.js

<script src="http://requirejs.org/docs/release/2.3.6/minified/require.js"></script>
<script>
    require(['dist/excellentexport'], function(ee) {
        window.ExcellentExport = ee;
    });
</script>

ES6 import

import ExcellentExport from 'excellentexport';

Usage

<table id="datatable">
    <tr>
        <td>100</td> <td>200</td> <td>300</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>400</td> <td>500</td> <td>600</td>
    </tr>
</table>

<a download="somedata.xls" href="#" onclick="return ExcellentExport.excel(this, 'datatable', 'Sheet Name Here');">Export to Excel</a>
<a download="somedata.csv" href="#" onclick="return ExcellentExport.csv(this, 'datatable');">Export to CSV</a>
<!-- new API, xlsx -->
<a download="somedata.xlsx" href="#" onclick="return ExcellentExport.convert({ anchor: this, filename: 'data_123.array', format: 'xlsx'},[{name: 'Sheet Name Here 1', from: {table: 'datatable'}}]);">Export to CSV</a>

API

 ExcellentExport.convert(options, sheets);

 Options:
 {
    anchor: String or HTML Element,
    format: 'xlsx' or 'xls' or 'csv',
    filename: String,
    rtl: Use Right-to-left characters, boolean (optional)
 }

 Sheets must be an array of sheet configuration objects. Sheet description:
 [
    {
        name: 'Sheet 1', // Sheet name
        from: {
            table: String/Element, // Table ID or table element
            array: [...] // Array with the data. Array where each element is a row. Every row is an array of the cells.
        },
        removeColumns: [...], // Array of column indexes (from 0)
        filterRowFn: function(row) {return true}, // Function to decide which rows are returned
        fixValue: function(value, row, column) {return fixedValue} // Function to fix values, receiving value, row num, column num
        fixArray: function(array) {return array} // Function to manipulate the whole data array
        rtl: Use Right-to-left characters, boolean (optional)
        formats: [...] // Array of formats for each column. See formats below.
        ...
    },
    {
        ...
    }, ...
]

fixValue example

This is an example for the fixValue function to handle HTML tags inside a table cell. It transforms BR to line breaks and then strips all the HTML tags.

            fixValue: (value, row, col) => {
                let v = value.replace(/<br>/gi, "\n");
                let strippedString = v.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/gi, "");
                return strippedString;
            }

Formats

You can specify an array with the formats for a specific cell range (i.e. A1:A100, A1:D100, A1:H1, etc).

Each element in the format array consists on:

{
    "range": "A1:A100", // Range of cells to apply the format, mandatory
    "format": {
        "type": "<cell_type>", // Type of format, mandatory
        "pattern": "<pattern>" // Pattern, optional
    }
}

Example:

          formats: [
            {
              range: "C2:C20",
              format: {
                type: "n",
                pattern: "0.00",
              },
            },
            {
              range: "C2:C20",
              format: ExcellentExport.formats.NUMBER,
            }
          ],

format can be used from one of the predefined types if you use TypeScript

cell_type can be one of the followint:

's': String
'n': Number
'd': Date
'b': Boolean

pattern is a string with the format pattern used in Excel. For example:

'0' // Integer
'0.00' // 2 decimals
'dd/mm/yyyy' // Date
'dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss' // Date and time
'0.00%' // Percentage
'0.00e+00' // Scientific notation
'@' // Text

Notes

IE8 or lower do not support data: url schema.
IE9 does not support data: url schema on links.
IE10 and above and Edge are supported via the Microsoft-specific msOpenOrSaveBlob method.

Test

python 2.x:
    python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

python 3.x:
    python -m http.server 8000

Build

Install dependencies:

npm install

Build development version dist/excellentexport.js

npm run build

Build publish version of dist/excellentexport.js

npm run prod

Publish

npm publish

Files

README.md

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