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Changelog

Major Features

1. Cell merge support, using rowspan and colspan html attributes on table. v5.0.0-rc.1, v5.0.0-rc.3, v5.0.0-rc.6, v5.0.0-rc.8, v5.0.0-rc.9

Properties

1. xlsx has replaced xls as the default spreadsheet format. v5.0.0-rc.2

// (String[]), filetype(s) for the export, (default: ['xlsx', 'csv', 'txt'])
formats: ['xlsx', 'csv', 'txt'],

1. Two(2) new export formats have been added: xlsm and xlsb. v5.0.0-rc.4

2. Both csv and xls formats now have a the enforceStrictRFC4180 property set to false. v5.0.0-rc.4

Methods

1. getFileSize utility method to quickly calculate the filesize of a file export. v5.0.0-rc.1

2. getBinaryData renamed to a more semantically correct getRawData

Settings

1. ignoreCSS can now accept either a selector (e.g. '.tableexport-ignore') or selector[] (e.g. ['.tableexport-ignore', '#ignore']). v5.0.0-rc.7

/**
 * CSS selector or selector[] to exclude/remove cells from the exported file(s).
 * @type {selector|selector[]}
 * @memberof TableExport.prototype
 */
ignoreCSS: ".tableexport-ignore";

1. emptyCSS can now accept either a selector (e.g. '.tableexport-empty') or selector[] (e.g. ['.tableexport-empty', '#empty']). v5.0.0-rc.7

/**
 * CSS selector or selector[] to replace cells with an empty string in the exported file(s).
 * @type {selector|selector[]}
 * @memberof TableExport.prototype
 */
emptyCSS: ".tableexport-empty";

1. defaultCaptionClass class is now configurable rather than statically set to the .tableexport-caption class. v5.0.0-rc.10

/**
 * Class applied to each table caption.
 * @memberof TableExport.prototype
 */
defaultCaptionClass: "tableexport-caption";

1. storageKey attribute is now configurable rather than statically set to the tableexport-id attribute. v5.0.0-rc.10

/**
 * Attribute applied to each export button element used to reference a Storage key.
 * @memberof TableExport.prototype
 */
storageKey: "tableexport-id";

1. defaultNamespace string is now configurable rather than statically set to the te- string. v5.0.0-rc.10

/**
 * Namespace (i.e. prefix) applied to each table UUID and Storage key.
 * @memberof TableExport.prototype
 */
defaultNamespace: "tableexport-";

1. types renamed to typeConfig. v5.0.0-rc.1
2. xlsx, xls, csv, and txt prototype properties moved to nested under the formatConfig namespace. v5.0.0-rc.1

Miscellaneous

1. Improved error logging to the console, including more verbose error descriptions. v5.0.0-rc.4
2. Serialized export data is now stored in Session Storage rather than Local Storage to prevent undesirable persistence. v5.0.0-rc.10
3. Implement caching by maintaining unique reference to tables by id. The tableKey attribute is now used to uniquely identify table elements and hold either the table's id or a UUID generated from the defaultNamespace and a unique internal counter. v5.0.0-rc.10, v5.0.0-rc.11