Export Button

DataTables Extensions

The features that DataTables provides can be greatly enhanced by the use of the plug-ins available on this page, which give many new user interaction and configuration options.

Reference

HTML5 Export Buttons

This example demonstrates these four button types with their default options. The other examples in this section demonstrate some of the options available.

Name	Position	Office	Age	Start date	Salary
Tiger Nixon	System Architect	Edinburgh	61	2011/04/25	$320,800
Garrett Winters	Accountant	Tokyo	63	2011/07/25	$170,750
Ashton Cox	Junior Technical Author	San Francisco	66	2009/01/12	$86,000
Cedric Kelly	Senior Javascript Developer	Edinburgh	22	2012/03/29	$433,060
Airi Satou	Accountant	Tokyo	33	2008/11/28	$162,700
Brielle Williamson	Integration Specialist	New York	61	2012/12/02	$372,000
Herrod Chandler	Sales Assistant	San Francisco	59	2012/08/06	$137,500
Rhona Davidson	Integration Specialist	Tokyo	55	2010/10/14	$327,900
Colleen Hurst	Javascript Developer	San Francisco	39	2009/09/15	$205,500
Sonya Frost	Software Engineer	Edinburgh	23	2008/12/13	$103,600
Jena Gaines	Office Manager	London	30	2008/12/19	$90,560
Quinn Flynn	Support Lead	Edinburgh	22	2013/03/03	$342,000
Charde Marshall	Regional Director	San Francisco	36	2008/10/16	$470,600
Haley Kennedy	Senior Marketing Designer	London	43	2012/12/18	$313,500
Tatyana Fitzpatrick	Regional Director	London	19	2010/03/17	$385,750
Michael Silva	Marketing Designer	London	66	2012/11/27	$198,500
Paul Byrd	Chief Financial Officer (CFO)	New York	64	2010/06/09	$725,000
Gloria Little	Systems Administrator	New York	59	2009/04/10	$237,500
Bradley Greer	Software Engineer	London	41	2012/10/13	$132,000
Dai Rios	Personnel Lead	Edinburgh	35	2012/09/26	$217,500
Name	Position	Office	Age	Start date	Salary

Column Selectors

All of the data export buttons have an exportOptions option which can be used to specify information about what data should be exported and how.

Name	Position	Office	Age	Start date	Salary
Tiger Nixon	System Architect	Edinburgh	61	2011/04/25	$320,800
Garrett Winters	Accountant	Tokyo	63	2011/07/25	$170,750
Ashton Cox	Junior Technical Author	San Francisco	66	2009/01/12	$86,000
Cedric Kelly	Senior Javascript Developer	Edinburgh	22	2012/03/29	$433,060
Airi Satou	Accountant	Tokyo	33	2008/11/28	$162,700
Brielle Williamson	Integration Specialist	New York	61	2012/12/02	$372,000
Herrod Chandler	Sales Assistant	San Francisco	59	2012/08/06	$137,500
Rhona Davidson	Integration Specialist	Tokyo	55	2010/10/14	$327,900
Colleen Hurst	Javascript Developer	San Francisco	39	2009/09/15	$205,500
Sonya Frost	Software Engineer	Edinburgh	23	2008/12/13	$103,600
Jena Gaines	Office Manager	London	30	2008/12/19	$90,560
Quinn Flynn	Support Lead	Edinburgh	22	2013/03/03	$342,000
Charde Marshall	Regional Director	San Francisco	36	2008/10/16	$470,600
Haley Kennedy	Senior Marketing Designer	London	43	2012/12/18	$313,500
Tatyana Fitzpatrick	Regional Director	London	19	2010/03/17	$385,750
Michael Silva	Marketing Designer	London	66	2012/11/27	$198,500
Paul Byrd	Chief Financial Officer (CFO)	New York	64	2010/06/09	$725,000
Gloria Little	Systems Administrator	New York	59	2009/04/10	$237,500
Bradley Greer	Software Engineer	London	41	2012/10/13	$132,000
Dai Rios	Personnel Lead	Edinburgh	35	2012/09/26	$217,500
Name	Position	Office	Age	Start date	Salary

Excel - Cell Background

The Excel export button saves to an XLSX file and the data can be customised before exporting the file using the customize method

Name	Position	Office	Age	Start date	Salary
Tiger Nixon	System Architect	Edinburgh	61	2011/04/25	$320,800
Garrett Winters	Accountant	Tokyo	63	2011/07/25	$170,750
Ashton Cox	Junior Technical Author	San Francisco	66	2009/01/12	$86,000
Cedric Kelly	Senior Javascript Developer	Edinburgh	22	2012/03/29	$433,060
Airi Satou	Accountant	Tokyo	33	2008/11/28	$162,700
Brielle Williamson	Integration Specialist	New York	61	2012/12/02	$372,000
Herrod Chandler	Sales Assistant	San Francisco	59	2012/08/06	$137,500
Rhona Davidson	Integration Specialist	Tokyo	55	2010/10/14	$327,900
Colleen Hurst	Javascript Developer	San Francisco	39	2009/09/15	$205,500
Sonya Frost	Software Engineer	Edinburgh	23	2008/12/13	$103,600
Jena Gaines	Office Manager	London	30	2008/12/19	$90,560
Quinn Flynn	Support Lead	Edinburgh	22	2013/03/03	$342,000
Charde Marshall	Regional Director	San Francisco	36	2008/10/16	$470,600
Haley Kennedy	Senior Marketing Designer	London	43	2012/12/18	$313,500
Tatyana Fitzpatrick	Regional Director	London	19	2010/03/17	$385,750
Michael Silva	Marketing Designer	London	66	2012/11/27	$198,500
Paul Byrd	Chief Financial Officer (CFO)	New York	64	2010/06/09	$725,000
Gloria Little	Systems Administrator	New York	59	2009/04/10	$237,500
Bradley Greer	Software Engineer	London	41	2012/10/13	$132,000
Dai Rios	Personnel Lead	Edinburgh	35	2012/09/26	$217,500
Name	Position	Office	Age	Start date	Salary

Custom File (JSON)

This example makes use of buttons.exportData() to get data from the host DataTable and then create a file with JSON data

Name	Position	Office	Age	Start date	Salary
Tiger Nixon	System Architect	Edinburgh	61	2011/04/25	$320,800
Garrett Winters	Accountant	Tokyo	63	2011/07/25	$170,750
Ashton Cox	Junior Technical Author	San Francisco	66	2009/01/12	$86,000
Cedric Kelly	Senior Javascript Developer	Edinburgh	22	2012/03/29	$433,060
Airi Satou	Accountant	Tokyo	33	2008/11/28	$162,700
Brielle Williamson	Integration Specialist	New York	61	2012/12/02	$372,000
Herrod Chandler	Sales Assistant	San Francisco	59	2012/08/06	$137,500
Rhona Davidson	Integration Specialist	Tokyo	55	2010/10/14	$327,900
Colleen Hurst	Javascript Developer	San Francisco	39	2009/09/15	$205,500
Sonya Frost	Software Engineer	Edinburgh	23	2008/12/13	$103,600
Jena Gaines	Office Manager	London	30	2008/12/19	$90,560
Quinn Flynn	Support Lead	Edinburgh	22	2013/03/03	$342,000
Charde Marshall	Regional Director	San Francisco	36	2008/10/16	$470,600
Haley Kennedy	Senior Marketing Designer	London	43	2012/12/18	$313,500
Tatyana Fitzpatrick	Regional Director	London	19	2010/03/17	$385,750
Michael Silva	Marketing Designer	London	66	2012/11/27	$198,500
Paul Byrd	Chief Financial Officer (CFO)	New York	64	2010/06/09	$725,000
Gloria Little	Systems Administrator	New York	59	2009/04/10	$237,500
Bradley Greer	Software Engineer	London	41	2012/10/13	$132,000
Dai Rios	Personnel Lead	Edinburgh	35	2012/09/26	$217,500
Name	Position	Office	Age	Start date	Salary

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Settings

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