How do I export multiple html tables to excel?

var tablesToExcel = (function () {
    var uri = "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24636956/data:application/vnd.ms-excel;base64,"
    , template="<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><x:ExcelWorkbook><x:ExcelWorksheets>"
    , templateend = '</x:ExcelWorksheets></x:ExcelWorkbook></xml><![endif]--></head>'
    , body = '<body>'
    , tablevar="<table>{table"
    , tablevarend = '}</table>'
    , bodyend = '</body></html>'
    , worksheet="<x:ExcelWorksheet><x:Name>"
    , worksheetend = '</x:Name><x:WorksheetOptions><x:DisplayGridlines/></x:WorksheetOptions></x:ExcelWorksheet>'
    , worksheetvar="{worksheet"
    , worksheetvarend = '}'
    , base64 = function (s) { return window.btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(s))) }
    , format = function (s, c) { return s.replace(/{(\w+)}/g, function (m, p) { return c[p]; }) }
    , wstemplate=""
    , tabletemplate="";

    return function (table, name, filename) {
        var tables = table;

        for (var i = 0; i < tables.length; ++i) {
            wstemplate += worksheet + worksheetvar + i + worksheetvarend + worksheetend;
            tabletemplate += tablevar + i + tablevarend;
        }

        var allTemplate = template + wstemplate + templateend;
        var allWorksheet = body + tabletemplate + bodyend;
        var allOfIt = allTemplate + allWorksheet;

        var ctx = {};
        for (var j = 0; j < tables.length; ++j) {
            ctx['worksheet' + j] = name[j];
        }

        for (var k = 0; k < tables.length; ++k) {
            var exceltable;
            if (!tables[k].nodeType) exceltable = document.getElementById(tables[k]);
            ctx['table' + k] = exceltable.innerHTML;
        }

        //document.getElementById("dlink").href = uri + base64(format(template, ctx));
        //document.getElementById("dlink").download = filename;
        //document.getElementById("dlink").click();

        window.location.href = uri + base64(format(allOfIt, ctx));

    }
})();

And the HTML

<html>
    <head>
        <title>JS to Excel</title>

    </head>
    <body>
        <table id="1">
            <tr><td>Hi</td></tr>
            <tr><td>Hey</td></tr>
            <tr><td>Hello</td></tr>
        </table>
        <table id="2">
            <tr><td>Night</td></tr>
            <tr><td>Evening</td></tr>
            <tr><td>Nite</td></tr>
        </table>

        <a id="dlink"  style="display:none;"></a>
        <input type="button" onclick="tablesToExcel(['1', '2'], ['first', 'second'], 'myfile.xls')" value="Export to Excel">
        <script src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24636956/~/Views/JS/JSExcel.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    </body>
</html>

NOTE: this doesn’t work on IE (‘data too small’ error) and on Firefox both tables are put on the same sheet.

Credit also to this thread – HTML Table to Excel Javascript

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