The HTML5 export buttons plug-in for Buttons provides four export buttons: copyHtml5 - copy to clipboard; csvHtml5 - save to CSV file; excelHtml5 - save to XLSX file (requires JSZip); pdfHtml5 - save to PDF file (requires PDFMake). This example demonstrates these four button types with their default options. Please note that these button types may also use a Flash fallback for older browsers (IE9-).

By default the name of the file created by the excelHtml5, csvHtml5 and pdfHtml5 button types will automatically be taken from the document's title element. It is also possible to set the file name to a specific value using the title option of these three button types. This example shows the title option being set for the excelHtml5 and pdfHtml5 buttons.

All of the data export buttons have a exportOptions option which can be used to specify information about what data should be exported and how. In this example the copy button will export column index 0 and all visible columns, the Excel button will export only the visible columns and the PDF button will export column indexes 0, 1, 2 and 5 only. Column visibility controls are also included so you can change the columns easily.

The copyHtml5 and csvHtml5 buttons have the option to specify the character that separates the values between fields. By default this is a tab character for the copy button, but the Comma Separated Values button uses a comma. In this example the exported file is a tab separated values file. The file extension has also been set to reflect this, although that is optional as most spreadsheet applications will read TSV files without issue.