Generate a Word document in JavaScript with Docx.js?

Question

I am trying to use docx.js to generate a Word document but I can\'t seem to get it to work.

I copied the raw code into the Google Chrome console after amending line

Answer 1

I am using Open Xml SDK for JavaScript.

http://ericwhite.com/blog/open-xml-sdk-for-javascript/

Basically, on web server, I have a empty docx file as new template. when user in browser click new docx file, I will retrieve the empty docx file as template, convert it to BASE64 and return it as Ajax response.

in client scripts, you convert the BASE64 string to byte array and using openxmlsdk.js to load the byte array as an javascript OpenXmlPackage object.

once you have the package loaded, you can use regular OpenXmlPart to create a real document. (inserting image, creating table/row ).

the last step is stream it out to end user as a document. this part is security related. in my code I send it back to webserver and gets saved temporarily. and prepare a http response to notify end user to download it.

Check the URL above, there are useful samples of doing this in JavaScript.

Answer 2

You may find this link useful,

http://evidenceprime.github.io/html-docx-js/

An online demo here:

http://evidenceprime.github.io/html-docx-js/test/sample.html

Answer 3

This code can't work on a JSFiddle because of the ajaxCalls to local files (everything that is in the blankfolder), or you should enter all files in ByteArray format and use the jsFiddle echo API: http://doc.jsfiddle.net/use/echo.html

Answer 4

You can generate a Docx Document from a template using docxtemplater (library I have created).

It can replace tags by their values (like a template engine), and also replace images in a paid version.

Here is a demo of the templating engine: https://docxtemplater.com/demo/

Answer 5

You are doing the correct thing codewise, but your file is not a valid docx file. If you look through the docx() function in docx.js, you will see that a docx file is actually a zip containing several xml files.

Answer 6

I know this is an older question and you already have an answer, but I struggled getting this to work for a day, so I thought I'd share my results.

Like you, I had to fix the textAlign bug by changing the line to this:

if (inNode.style && inNode.style.textAlign)

Also, it didn't handle HTML comments. So, I had to add the following line above the check for a "#text" node in the for loop:

if (inNodeChild.nodeName === '#comment') continue;

To create the docx was tricky since there is absolutely no documentation on this thing as of yet. But looking through the code, I see that it is expecting the HTML to be in a File object. For my purposes, I wanted to use the HTML I rendered, not some HTML file the user has to select to upload. So I had to trick it by making my own object with the same property that it was looking for and pass it in. To save it to the client, I use FileSaver.js, which requires a blob. I included this function that converts base64 into a blob. So my code to implement it is this:

var result = docx({ DOM: $('#myDiv')[0] });
var blob = b64toBlob(result.base64, "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document");
saveAs(blob, "test.docx");

In the end, this would work for simple Word documents, but isn't nearly sophisticated for anything more. I couldn't get any of my styles to render and I didn't even attempt to get images working. I've since abandoned this approach and am now researching DocxgenJS or some server-side solution.