Buttons example File export

Exporting data from a table can often be a key part of a complex application. The Buttons extension for DataTables provides three plug-ins that provide overlapping functionality for data export:

  • HTML5 export buttons - makes use of HTML5 APIs to create files client-side
  • Flash export buttons - uses Adobe Flash for legacy browsers
  • Print button

Both sets of buttons provide:

  • Copy to clipboard
  • Save as Excel (XLSX)
  • Save as CSV
  • Save as PDF
  • Display a print view

Buttons provides button types that will automatically determine if HTML5 or Flash should be used based on the browser's functionality and it is strongly recommended that you use these button types over the specific HTML5 or Flash button types. These are: copy, csv, excel, pdf.

This example shows those four button types, plus print, being used with all required dependencies being loaded.

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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
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The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:

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$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#example').DataTable( {
        dom: 'Bfrtip',
        buttons: [
            'copy', 'csv', 'excel', 'pdf', 'print'
        ]
    } );
} );

In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example: