bgillingham
Hey all... I wanted to share a useful tool that I wrote for making spreadsheets out of any HTML table. The reason that I wrote the tool is because there are many tables out there that contain data, but most are not sortable. Currently, there are some restrictions, but since it is still useful I wanted to get the tool up there in it's raw form. I have some instructions on the page as to how to use and configure IE security for the ActiveX script call, etc.
Save HTML table as an Excel spreadsheet
One of the issues is that this only runs on Internet Explorer and a prerequisite is that you need to have Microsoft Excel installed on your machine.
This works fine for all of the tables that I tested this on. I strip out a most of the html tags that would slow down performance and otherwise cause problems. I haven't tested this out with any tables that use colspan or rowspan attributes - and I expect that these may cause some problems.
Save HTML table as an Excel spreadsheet
One of the issues is that this only runs on Internet Explorer and a prerequisite is that you need to have Microsoft Excel installed on your machine.
This works fine for all of the tables that I tested this on. I strip out a most of the html tags that would slow down performance and otherwise cause problems. I haven't tested this out with any tables that use colspan or rowspan attributes - and I expect that these may cause some problems.
