The HTML5 export buttons plug-in for Buttons provides four export buttons:
copyHtml5 - Copy to clipboard
csvHtml5 - Save to CSV file
excelHtml5 - Save to XLSX file - requires JSZip
pdfHtml5 - Save to PDF file - requires PDFMake
Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Airi Satou | Accountant | Tokyo | 33 | 2008/11/28 | $162,700 |
Angelica Ramos | Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | London | 47 | 2009/10/09 | $1,200,000 |
Ashton Cox | Junior Technical Author | San Francisco | 66 | 2009/01/12 | $86,000 |
Bradley Greer | Software Engineer | London | 41 | 2012/10/13 | $132,000 |
Brenden Wagner | Software Engineer | San Francisco | 28 | 2011/06/07 | $206,850 |
Brielle Williamson | Integration Specialist | New York | 61 | 2012/12/02 | $372,000 |
Bruno Nash | Software Engineer | London | 38 | 2011/05/03 | $163,500 |
Caesar Vance | Pre-Sales Support | New York | 21 | 2011/12/12 | $106,450 |
Cara Stevens | Sales Assistant | New York | 46 | 2011/12/06 | $145,600 |
Cedric Kelly | Senior Javascript Developer | Edinburgh | 22 | 2012/03/29 | $433,060 |
Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
The copyHtml5 and csvHtml5 buttons have the option to specify the character (or more generally a full string) that separates the values between fields. By default this is a tab character for the copy button, but the Comma Separated Values button uses a comma.
Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Airi Satou | Accountant | Tokyo | 33 | 2008/11/28 | $162,700 |
Angelica Ramos | Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | London | 47 | 2009/10/09 | $1,200,000 |
Ashton Cox | Junior Technical Author | San Francisco | 66 | 2009/01/12 | $86,000 |
Bradley Greer | Software Engineer | London | 41 | 2012/10/13 | $132,000 |
Brenden Wagner | Software Engineer | San Francisco | 28 | 2011/06/07 | $206,850 |
Brielle Williamson | Integration Specialist | New York | 61 | 2012/12/02 | $372,000 |
Bruno Nash | Software Engineer | London | 38 | 2011/05/03 | $163,500 |
Caesar Vance | Pre-Sales Support | New York | 21 | 2011/12/12 | $106,450 |
Cara Stevens | Sales Assistant | New York | 46 | 2011/12/06 | $145,600 |
Cedric Kelly | Senior Javascript Developer | Edinburgh | 22 | 2012/03/29 | $433,060 |
Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
All of the data export buttons have a exportOptions option which can be used to specify information about what data should be exported and how. The options given for this parameter are passed directly to the buttons.exportData() method to obtain the required data.
One of the most commonly used is the columns option which defines the columns that should be used as part of the export. This is given as a column-selector, making it simple to tell it if you want only visible columns, or a mix of the columns available.
Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Airi Satou | Accountant | Tokyo | 33 | 2008/11/28 | $162,700 |
Angelica Ramos | Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | London | 47 | 2009/10/09 | $1,200,000 |
Ashton Cox | Junior Technical Author | San Francisco | 66 | 2009/01/12 | $86,000 |
Bradley Greer | Software Engineer | London | 41 | 2012/10/13 | $132,000 |
Brenden Wagner | Software Engineer | San Francisco | 28 | 2011/06/07 | $206,850 |
Brielle Williamson | Integration Specialist | New York | 61 | 2012/12/02 | $372,000 |
Bruno Nash | Software Engineer | London | 38 | 2011/05/03 | $163,500 |
Caesar Vance | Pre-Sales Support | New York | 21 | 2011/12/12 | $106,450 |
Cara Stevens | Sales Assistant | New York | 46 | 2011/12/06 | $145,600 |
Cedric Kelly | Senior Javascript Developer | Edinburgh | 22 | 2012/03/29 | $433,060 |
Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
The Excel export button saves to an XLSX file and the data can be customized before exporting the file using the customize method of the excelHtml5 button type.
Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Airi Satou | Accountant | Tokyo | 33 | 2008/11/28 | $162,700 |
Angelica Ramos | Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | London | 47 | 2009/10/09 | $1,200,000 |
Ashton Cox | Junior Technical Author | San Francisco | 66 | 2009/01/12 | $86,000 |
Bradley Greer | Software Engineer | London | 41 | 2012/10/13 | $132,000 |
Brenden Wagner | Software Engineer | San Francisco | 28 | 2011/06/07 | $206,850 |
Brielle Williamson | Integration Specialist | New York | 61 | 2012/12/02 | $372,000 |
Bruno Nash | Software Engineer | London | 38 | 2011/05/03 | $163,500 |
Caesar Vance | Pre-Sales Support | New York | 21 | 2011/12/12 | $106,450 |
Cara Stevens | Sales Assistant | New York | 46 | 2011/12/06 | $145,600 |
Cedric Kelly | Senior Javascript Developer | Edinburgh | 22 | 2012/03/29 | $433,060 |
Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
The page size and orientation of the pdfHtml5 button type can be set using the orientation and pageSize options. By default these values are portrait and A4, but are easily customized as shown in this example which uses a landscape layout and US legal paper size.
Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Airi Satou | Accountant | Tokyo | 33 | 2008/11/28 | $162,700 |
Angelica Ramos | Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | London | 47 | 2009/10/09 | $1,200,000 |
Ashton Cox | Junior Technical Author | San Francisco | 66 | 2009/01/12 | $86,000 |
Bradley Greer | Software Engineer | London | 41 | 2012/10/13 | $132,000 |
Brenden Wagner | Software Engineer | San Francisco | 28 | 2011/06/07 | $206,850 |
Brielle Williamson | Integration Specialist | New York | 61 | 2012/12/02 | $372,000 |
Bruno Nash | Software Engineer | London | 38 | 2011/05/03 | $163,500 |
Caesar Vance | Pre-Sales Support | New York | 21 | 2011/12/12 | $106,450 |
Cara Stevens | Sales Assistant | New York | 46 | 2011/12/06 | $145,600 |
Cedric Kelly | Senior Javascript Developer | Edinburgh | 22 | 2012/03/29 | $433,060 |
Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
The PDFs created through the pdfHtml5 button type are generated through the PDFMake library which uses a declarative document structure to describe the PDF to be make in a simple to understand Javascript object.
Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Airi Satou | Accountant | Tokyo | 33 | 2008/11/28 | $162,700 |
Angelica Ramos | Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | London | 47 | 2009/10/09 | $1,200,000 |
Ashton Cox | Junior Technical Author | San Francisco | 66 | 2009/01/12 | $86,000 |
Bradley Greer | Software Engineer | London | 41 | 2012/10/13 | $132,000 |
Brenden Wagner | Software Engineer | San Francisco | 28 | 2011/06/07 | $206,850 |
Brielle Williamson | Integration Specialist | New York | 61 | 2012/12/02 | $372,000 |
Bruno Nash | Software Engineer | London | 38 | 2011/05/03 | $163,500 |
Caesar Vance | Pre-Sales Support | New York | 21 | 2011/12/12 | $106,450 |
Cara Stevens | Sales Assistant | New York | 46 | 2011/12/06 | $145,600 |
Cedric Kelly | Senior Javascript Developer | Edinburgh | 22 | 2012/03/29 | $433,060 |
Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
Please refer to the PDFMaker documentation for full details of how the PDF can be customized.
Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Airi Satou | Accountant | Tokyo | 33 | 2008/11/28 | $162,700 |
Angelica Ramos | Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | London | 47 | 2009/10/09 | $1,200,000 |
Ashton Cox | Junior Technical Author | San Francisco | 66 | 2009/01/12 | $86,000 |
Bradley Greer | Software Engineer | London | 41 | 2012/10/13 | $132,000 |
Brenden Wagner | Software Engineer | San Francisco | 28 | 2011/06/07 | $206,850 |
Brielle Williamson | Integration Specialist | New York | 61 | 2012/12/02 | $372,000 |
Bruno Nash | Software Engineer | London | 38 | 2011/05/03 | $163,500 |
Caesar Vance | Pre-Sales Support | New York | 21 | 2011/12/12 | $106,450 |
Cara Stevens | Sales Assistant | New York | 46 | 2011/12/06 | $145,600 |
Cedric Kelly | Senior Javascript Developer | Edinburgh | 22 | 2012/03/29 | $433,060 |
Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
Buttons uses the excellent FileSaver.js by Eli Grey in order to be able to create and download files on the client-side (i.e. for the CSV and Excel button types). Buttons' built in FileSaver.js is exposed via $.fn.dataTable.fileSave() when the HTML5 button types file is loaded, and it can be used to easily create your own custom files.
Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Airi Satou | Accountant | Tokyo | 33 | 2008/11/28 | $162,700 |
Angelica Ramos | Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | London | 47 | 2009/10/09 | $1,200,000 |
Ashton Cox | Junior Technical Author | San Francisco | 66 | 2009/01/12 | $86,000 |
Bradley Greer | Software Engineer | London | 41 | 2012/10/13 | $132,000 |
Brenden Wagner | Software Engineer | San Francisco | 28 | 2011/06/07 | $206,850 |
Brielle Williamson | Integration Specialist | New York | 61 | 2012/12/02 | $372,000 |
Bruno Nash | Software Engineer | London | 38 | 2011/05/03 | $163,500 |
Caesar Vance | Pre-Sales Support | New York | 21 | 2011/12/12 | $106,450 |
Cara Stevens | Sales Assistant | New York | 46 | 2011/12/06 | $145,600 |
Cedric Kelly | Senior Javascript Developer | Edinburgh | 22 | 2012/03/29 | $433,060 |
Name | Position | Office | Age | Start date | Salary |