Question

I have a simple table which I would like to export to an Excel file on click of a button.

I wrote a function in JavaScript, but I am not sure what is going wrong.

function CreateExcelSheet()
{
    var x=myTable.rows
    var xls = new ActiveXObject("Excel.Application")
    xls.visible = true
    xls.Workbooks.Add
    for (i = 0; i < x.length; i++)
    {
        var y = x[i].cells
        for (j = 0; j < y.length; j++)
        {
            xls.Cells( i+1, j+1).Value = y[j].innerText
        }
    }
}

This is the button on the JSP page:

</table>
    <input type="button" onclick="CreateExcelSheet()" value="Export"></input>
</form>

It used to work earlier but it is not working now. Is there any other way to do this?

Answer 1

<script language="javascript">

function runApp()
{
    var x=myTable.rows;
    var Excel = new ActiveXObject("Excel.Application");
    Excel.visible = true;
    var Book = Excel.Workbooks.Add();
    for (i = 0; i < x.length; i++)
    {
        var y = x[i].cells;
        for (j = 0; j < y.length; j++)
        {
            Book.ActiveSheet.Cells( i+1, j+1).Value = y[j].innerText;
        }
    }
}

</script>