Javascript can manipulate the document the browser is displaying, so the following:
<script>
document.write("<table><tr><td>Hola</td><td>Adios</td></tr></table>");
</script>
Will make the browser display a table just like if it was the original HTML document:
<table>
<tr>
<td>Hola</td>
<td>Adios</td>
</tr>
</table>
Is there a way I can save/serve this document content?
Currently we have some nicely generated reports using Ext-js, what I would like to do is to have the "text/html" version of it ( I mean, something that doesn't require javascript )
So at the end of the page I would add a button : "Save as blaba" and the document should display the text/plain version.
The only way I could think right now is, to write the content into a javascript variable like:
var content = document.toString(); // or something magic like that.
// post it to the server
Then post that value to the server, and have the server present that value.
<%=request.getParameter("content-text")%>
But looks very tricky.
Is there an alternative?
EDIT
Ok, I almost got it. Now I just need the new window to pop up so the option "would you like to save it shows"
This is what I've got so far
<script>
document.write("<div id='content'><table><tr><td>Hola</td><td>Adios</td></tr></table></div>");
function saveAs(){
var sMarkup = document.getElementById('content').innerHTML;
var oNewDoc = document.open('application/vnd.ms-excel');
oNewDoc.write( sMarkup + "<hr>" );
oNewDoc.close();
}
</script>
<input type="button" value="Save as" onClick="saveAs()"/>
The line:
var oNewDoc = document.open('application/vnd.ms-excel');
Should specify the new content type, but it is being ignored.
