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HTML
<div class="toggle-button" id="downloadButton"><span>Export to CSV</span>
</div>
CSS
.toggle-button {
height: 25px;
width: 70px;
color: black;
background-color: white;
border: solid #f1f1f2 2px;
margin: 0 10px 0 0;
cursor: pointer;
float: left;
padding-top: 2px;
font-family:"Source Sans Pro";
font-size: 13px;
z-index: 1;
}
.toggle-button:hover {
background-color: #98BF47;
color: white;
font-weight: 600;
border: solid #444952 2px;
z-index: 1;
}
JavaScript
$('#downloadButton').click(function () {
// some data to export
var data = [{
"title": "Book title 1",
"author": "Name1 Surname1"
}, {
"title": "Book title 2",
"author": "Name2 Surname2"
}, {
"title": "Book title 3",
"author": "Name3 Surname3"
}, {
"title": "Book title 4",
"author": "Name4 Surname4"
}];
// prepare CSV data
var csvData = new Array();
csvData.push('"Book title","Author"');
data.forEach(function (item, index, array) {
csvData.push('"' + item.title + '","' + item.author + '"');
});
// download stuff
var fileName = "data.csv";
var buffer = csvData.join("\n");
var blob = new Blob([buffer], {
"type": "text/csv;charset=utf8;"
});
var link = document.createElement("a");
if (link.download !== undefined) { // feature detection
// Browsers that support HTML5 download attribute
link.setAttribute("href", window.URL.createObjectURL(blob));
link.setAttribute("download", fileName);
document.body.appendChild(link);
link.click();
document.body.removeChild(link);
} else {
alert('CSV export only works in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera.');
}
});