Download Custom Table HTML to Excel Using Table2excel Plugin - excel

Question

I am trying to download table HTML using table2excel plugin.
I can download all column in table with this code:
<table id="empTable">
<tr>
<th>ID</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Address</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>01</td>
<td>Alpha</td>
<td>37</td>
<td>Bandung</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>02</td>
<td>Bravo</td>
<td>29</td>
<td>Bali</td>
</tr>
</table>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#empTable").table2excel({
filename: "Employees.xls"
});
});
</script>
I am success to download table with all column (ID, Name, Age, Address). How to download as excel partial of column table? I only want to download column ID, Name, and Age without column Address. How should I do?

Answer 1

table2excel has an option to exclude cells that contain a specified class. In the example below, I add the noExport class to the cells I don't want to export. They are ignored when the file is created.
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#export').on('click', function(e){
$("#table").table2excel({
exclude: ".noExport",
name: "Data",
filename: "Workbook",
});
});
});
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdn.rawgit.com/rainabba/jquery-table2excel/1.1.0/dist/jquery.table2excel.min.js"></script>
<button id="export">Export</button>
<table id="table">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="noExport">This cell won't be exported.</td>
<td>This cell will get exported.</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Lorem</td>
<td class="noExport">Ipsum</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Foo</td>
<td>Bar</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Admittedly, this could get tedious to do for an entire column. Fortunately, a GitHub user forked table2excel and made a modification that allows you to specify which columns you want to export.
See: https://github.com/davidkonrad/table2excel
Using his version of table2excel, it'd look something like this:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#export').on('click', function(e){
$("#table").table2excel({
exclude: ".noExport",
name: "Data",
filename: "Workbook",
columns: [0, 1, 2] // export first three columns
});
});
});
Note that there does appear to be a bug with opening table2excel workbooks in some versions of Excel. You might get a warning saying the file extension doesn't match. But if you ignore this warning, it should load in Excel without further issue.