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I'm trying to fix a bug at work where in classic ASP a HTML table is being rendered and then sent to the client as an Excel file. I'll spare the entire source code sample, but essentially we have one column that is alpha numeric, yet when the value starts with one or more zeros, the zeros disappear. I know this is standard Excel behavior for handling numbers, but I want it to treat the value as text. How can I do this?
Response.Write("<td class='tdsmall' align='left' NOWRAP>" & rsPODetail("ITM_ID") & "</td>")
HTML | EXCEL
00212704 | 212704
00212336 | 212336
00212251 | 212251
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To convert HTML table data into excel, we need to use the SheetJS library. Using SheetJs we can easily convert our table data into an Xls file. We can download the js file from Github or directly use the CDN hosted file. We are done with HTML markup and import Sheetjs library.
Right-click on any cell in the table. Select Export Table. You can either Export to CSV or Export to Excel.
Just add one line before your table
Response.Write("<style> TD { mso-number-format:\@; } </style>");
Check this out: Export Gridview to Excel with rows formatted as text
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Maybe try ="00212704"
Response.Write("<td class='tdsmall' align='left' NOWRAP>=""" & rsPODetail("ITM_ID") & """</td>")
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