Added ability to exclude columns from the Excel Output

Columns can now be excluded from the output using the exclude_selector option. Also updated documentation and demo to show the new feature.

CSV Output Added

Release 1.1!!!

After receiving some feed back, I decided to add in CSV output.

Enhancements

• Added format option for setting csv/xlsx (defaulted to xlsx)
• Updated demo with new option

Known Issues

• Tables with empty rows and columns export display poorly
• col/row spans break the generator

What else?

A chrome extension has been written to use the js-excel-generator. Check it out here chrome-excel-generator! Soon it will be available on the Chrome App store as a free tool for capturing excel spreadsheets from visited web pages.

Core Functionality Implemented

Release 1.0!!!

After a week of testing and refinement the library is much more stable.

Enhancements

• Added src option for passing in a jQuery element instead of specifying a src_id

Fixes

• Added XML encoding to strings, illegal characters were breaking the Spreadsheet
• Check for th tags in non-header rows. Bootstrap uses th tags in non-header rows. The spreadsheet was not correct.
• Fix for illegal characters in table header
• Various other small fixes

Known Issues

• Tables with empty rows and columns export display poorly
• col/row spans break the generator

What else?

A chrome extension has been written to use the js-excel-generator. Check it out here chrome-excel-generator! Soon it will be available on the Chrome App store as a free tool for capturing excel spreadsheets from visited web pages.

First Release - Semi Stable

This initial pre-release code functions within a controlled set of circumstances. More testing and code cleanup is required before putting out a "production ready" release. Minimal testing has been performed in:

Chrome
Internet Explorer 11
Edge
Safari

Hoping to have a "production ready" release out very shortly. Thank you for checking out this project, I hope you find it useful.

Known limitations:

• Requires the HTML Table to be simple and straight-forward. No col or row spans.
• Code structure is still a little rough

Coming soon!

• Row and Col span handlers
• Auto-formatting feature
• Chrome Extension using this library to export tables on visited pages to Excel
• General improvements and fixes

Thanks for checking out this release!