Possible enhancement: autoTableHtmlToJson() might return inner HTML text inside cells

Sometimes, the content of a table cell is not plain text, but HTML. However, on those cases autoTableHtmlToJson() function returns blank string.

Don’t worry. It’s very easy to fix this misbehaviour. At line 1998 in version 2.0.33, simply change this one: var val = cell ? cell.textContent.trim() : ''; by this other: var val = cell ? cell.innerHTML.trim() : '';

In future versions of AutoTable, it would be nice to have a third param for autoTableHtmlToJson() function, something like “HTML = false” in case you want to get only text content, or “HTML = true” in case you want to get all the raw content.

When HTML = true, after calling autoTableHtmlToJson() you could get whatever you want from the HTML data retrieved of those cells that contains HTML. For the cells with only plain text, you do not need to do anything.

For instance:

var res = pdf.autoTableHtmlToJson(document.getElementById("table_cust"), true, true);  // note the third param here! Inner HTML will be returned.

// Now, we are going to do some things with the data
for (i = 0; i < res.data.length-1; i++) {
    // Get image path of column 6
    if (res.data[i][6] != '')
        res.data[i][6] = $(res.data[i][6]).attr('src');  // Originally, this table cell contained <img alt='' src='../../img/test1.png' />
    // Force to put blank string for column 7
    if (res.data[i][7] != '')
        res.data[i][7] = '';
}
// Last row has formatted total values in columns 1 and 5 (i.e. <div class='text-center'><b>1.250,00€</b></div>). But we only need the text:
res.data[res.data.length-1][1] = $(res.data[res.data.length-1][1]).text();
res.data[res.data.length-1][5] = $(res.data[res.data.length-1][5]).text();

Regards!

[razorrazor]

That’s not a trouble to me, but your second alternative sounds good. In that case, it would be easy to get any attribute value on createdCell event using querySelector (I didn’t know of the existence of this function). You’re the master. It’s up to you 😉

[tbiinfotech]

Can I use html under autoTable cell or there is no way to do it?