For one of my projects, I had to export HTML table to a PDF file with
- page title
- table
- table header
- disclaimer footnote
Eventually the following requirements came along:
- not all the single table will have table header
- need to export multiple tables with their headers
- a few tables might need to be exported in landscape page orientation
- all the tables have specific names, so the PDF file should use that name
After some googling I found out that the jsPDF autotable plugin will be the easiest way to achieve my goals.
In my example, the convertTableToPDF() has the following parameters:
{string} fileName- the name of the PDF file{string} title- ID of the page title (and sub-title) section (optional, but have to send an empty string; like '' ){string[]} tableArray- ID(s) of the HTML table(s){string[]} tableHeaderArray- ID(s) of the HTML table header(s) (for single table with no table header, this can be left blank; like []){string} pg_orientation- preferred printing page orientation (optional, can be omitted)
Feel free to use and modify this solution as needed. I do understand that there are a lot of ways to improve this function, but this was the quickest solution I could come up with for my project (for now). For example, I'm not happy the way I had to create different table options for each of my tables, would appreciate if someone can come up with a better solution :)