Export HTML table to Excel - using jQuery or Java

Question

I\'ve a HTML table on my JSP page, that I want to be exported to Excel on a button click.

What would be the best way of going about this?

(For ex., how would

Answer 1

You would have to create something on the server-side (like a servlet) to read the html and create the excel file and serve it back to the user.

You could use this library to help you do the transformation.

Answer 2

Exporting to Excel file format with JQuery is impossible.

You can try with Java. There are a lot of libraries to do that.

Answer 3

I would recommend Apache POI, we've been using it for years, never had any problems.

Alot of examples online to get a good start, and the documentation on the site is also good: http://poi.apache.org/spreadsheet/quick-guide.html