Export data from datatable with select element exports each option from the select element

Question

I am try to add export buttons to my datatable, my table include select boxes inside, the problem is - it export all the options values included in the select box... A am us

Answer 1

Use exportOptions'format.body callback to get control over the exported data. Use the dataTables API to find the current selected value for each box. Here for the first column and pdf :

buttons: [
  { 
    extend : 'pdf',
    exportOptions : {
      format: {
        body: function( data, row, col, node ) {
          if (col == 0) {
            return table
              .cell( {row: row, column: col} )
              .nodes()
              .to$()
              .find(':selected')
              .text()
           } else {
              return data;
           }
        }
      }
    },
    ...
  }
]

Where table is the table instance, in your case me.dataTable_obj. Now just change if (col == 0) { so it respond to the columns where you have

boxes (I dont know that).