Generate excel sheet from html tables using jquery

Question

I wanted to generate an excel sheet once a user clicks on a button . Basically i want to do exactly what is dicussed here

how to pass html table values to excel she

Answer 1

Here is the answer: Export dynamic html table to excel in javascript in firefox browser by insin

var tableToExcel = (function() {
      var uri = 'data:application/vnd.ms-excel;base64,'
        , template = '{table}'
        , base64 = function(s) { return window.btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(s))) }
        , format = function(s, c) { return s.replace(/{(\w+)}/g, function(m, p) { return c[p]; }) }
      return function(table, name) {
        if (!table.nodeType) table = document.getElementById(table)
        var ctx = {worksheet: name || 'Worksheet', table: table.innerHTML}
        window.location.href = uri + base64(format(template, ctx))
      }
    })()