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- Convert Excel to HTML Table Tags – VBA Macro Code
- VBA Macro Code – Convert Excel Table to HTML
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- Convert Excel Range into HTML Table through VBA
- Excel VBA Code to Convert Excel Range to HTML using VBA:
- Convert Excel Range into HTML Table through VBA
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Create an HTML File with a Table of Contents based on Cell Data
This code example shows how to take data from a worksheet and create a table of contents in an HTML file. The worksheet should have data in columns A, B, and C that correspond to the first, second, and third levels of the table of contents hierarchy. The HTML file is stored in the same working folder as the active workbook.
Sample code provided by: Holy Macro! Books, Holy Macro! It’s 2,500 Excel VBA Examples
- » Print #1, «
- » & Cells(iRow, 1).Value & «» iPage = iPage + 1 If iStage < 1 Then iStage = iStage + 1 End If End If 'Translate the second column of the table into the second level of the hierarchy. If Not IsEmpty(Cells(iRow, 2)) Then For iCounter = 2 To iStage Print #1, "
- » Print #1, «
- » & Cells(iRow, 2).Value & «» iPage = iPage + 1 If iStage < 2 Then iStage = iStage + 1 End If End If 'Translate the third column of the table into the third level of the hierarchy. If Not IsEmpty(Cells(iRow, 3)) Then If iStage < 3 Then Print #1, "
- » End If Print #1, «
- » & Cells(iRow, 3).Value & «» iPage = iPage + 1 If iStage < 3 Then iStage = iStage + 1 End If End If iRow = iRow + 1 Loop 'Add ending HTML tags For iCounter = 2 To iStage Print #1, "
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Convert Excel to HTML Table Tags – VBA Macro Code
Most of the time, It is easy to represent data in table format. Excel spreadsheet is the one that can create table format data in seconds. But, to make it as HTML page, we need too many tags to be added for each cell. It is not tough, not anymore.
Here is the easy solution.
- Download the Excel at end of this page.
- Copy the content to this Excel.
- Click the Convert ‘Excel to HTML Table’ button.
- Get the HTML code written to file.
- Use it in your webpage.
If you are already a VBA gig, then just use the free code available in this page, that just does the same.
VBA Macro Code – Convert Excel Table to HTML
This VBA code just loops thru all the rows & columns in the Excel table in the first sheet.
First Row Header: Instead of checking for font style, code in the Excel file attached below, converts the first row as header.
Table Width: Each column width in Excel is set to width of each column in HTML Table.
Sub Convert_Excel_Table_To_HTML() Dim htmlTable As String, iSh As Worksheet Dim iRow As Double, iCol As Double, iVal As String Dim iRowCount As Long, iColCount As Integer, iWidth(100) As Double iRow = 1 iCol = 1 'Get the number of rows and columns Set iSh = ThisWorkbook.Sheets(1) While iSh.Cells(iRow, 1).Value <> "" iRow = iRow + 1 Wend While iSh.Cells(1, iCol).Value <> "" iWidth(iCol) = iSh.Columns(iCol).Width iCol = iCol + 1 Wend iRowCount = iRow - 1 iColCount = iCol - 1 htmlTable = "
" & iVal & " | " Else htmlTable = htmlTable & "" & iVal & " | " End If Next iCol htmlTable = htmlTable & "
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If the data also has any data to be bold then consider changing the code accordingly.
Download Excel to HTML Table Converter
This converter app has all the functionalities explained above as same. Except for this one.
Bold Data: If the row is Bold, then it is considered as Table header. If it is not bold, then it is considered as table cell data.
Just download this Excel app, Enable security options for macro & content when asked for, then copy paste your data to the first sheet & Click on convert button.
This app only converts spreadsheet into a plain HTML table. The formatting within the table are ignored.
Convert Excel Range into HTML Table through VBA
As a VBA developer you may frequently come cross with a requirement of sending an email through Outlook along with an HTML table inside email body. Adding an HTML table in email body is very simple task if you do manually, just copy the range in Excel and paste it on email. It is little difficult in VBA to copy Excel range into email body. To convert Excel range into HTML table, you need to play with HTML tags. Below is the code which can make your life easy
Excel VBA Code to Convert Excel Range to HTML using VBA:
'Following function converts Excel range to HTML table
Public Function ConvertRangeToHTMLTable(rInput As Range) As String
'Declare variables
Dim rRow As Range
Dim rCell As Range
Dim strReturn As String
'Define table format and font
strReturn
'Loop through each row in the range
For Each rRow In rInput.Rows
'Start new html row
strReturn = strReturn & "" "
For Each rCell In rRow.Cells
'If it is row 1 then it is header row that need to be bold
If rCell.Row = 1 Then
strReturn = strReturn & "" & rCell.Text & " "
Else
strReturn = strReturn & "" & rCell.Text & " "
End If
Next rCell
'End a row
strReturn = strReturn & "
Next rRow
'Close the font tag
strReturn = strReturn & ""
'Return html format
ConvertRangeToHTMLTable = strReturn
End Function
Convert Excel Range into HTML Table through VBA
Below Excel Macro creates an email in outlook and call the above function to add Excel Range as HTML Table in Email Body
'This function creates an email in Outlook and call the ConvertRangeToHTMLTable function
to add Excel range as HTML table in Email body
Sub CreateOutlookEmail()
'Declare variable
Dim objMail As Outlook.MailItem
'Create new Outlook email object
Set objMail = Outlook.CreateItem(olMailItem)
'Assign To
objMail.To /cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" data-cfemail="f88c9d8b8cb89f95999194d69b9795">[email protected]"
'Assign Cc
objMail.CC /cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" data-cfemail="691d0c1a1d5b290e04080005470a0604">[email protected]"
'Assign Subject
objMail.Subject = "Test Email"
'Define HTML email body
'Tip: Here i have converted range A1:F20 of Sheet1 in HTML table, you can modify the
same as per your requirement
objMail.HTMLBody = "This is a test email
" & ConvertRangeToHTMLTable(Sheet1.Range("A1:F20"))
objMail.HTMLBody = "This is a test email
" & ConvertRangeToHTMLTable(Sheet1.Range("A1:F20"))
'Show the email to User
objMail.Display
'Send the email
'objMail.Send
'Close the object
Set objMail = Nothing
End Sub
It is worth to mention that you must have MS Outlook installed in your system to use this code and you also need to add Outlook reference (Microsoft Outlook XX.X Object Library) in Excel VBA from Menu Bar (Tools>References…). You can read this post to see how to add Outlook Object Library in Excel Reference.
To use this code in your Excel file, follow below steps:
1. Open an Excel file
2. Press Alt+F11
3. Insert a Module (Insert>Module) from menu bar
4. Paste the code in the module
5. Now add a shape in Excel sheet
6. Give a name to the shape like ‘Create Email’
7. Right click on the shape and select ‘Assign Macro…’
8. Select ‘CreateOutlookEmail’ from the list and click on ‘Ok’ button
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11 Comments
Thanks for your response Sandeep. As we checked rInput is already declared as input parameter of ConvertRangeToHTMLTable function; hence need not to be declared separately.
Hello – I’ve been working with this but I can’t figure out how to change the header row to bold. I’m using the function for 3 seperate tables on the same sheet and using If rCell.Row = 1 this is the first row in the sheet, not in the range? How do I select the first row in the range?
Hi Jason, Can you try to replace If rCell.Row = 1 Then with If rCell.Row — rInput.Row = 0 Then . Regards
ExcelSirJi Team
hello, i copy and pasted your code. in the email, i got a super small table with no code. the problem is rCell.Text is not displaying the text. When i replace rCell.Text with something else, like “hello”, it works perfectly.
Hi Gordon, We are not able to reproduce the error of small text. The error seems to be more related to data that you are trying to convert in HTML Table. Can you try the same code with any other Excel file? Regards
ExcelSirJi
Hello – this macro works perfectly thank you! However there are empty rows in my range that I am converting to a table, but when I do the macro the table does not have blank rows. Is there a way I can leave the blank cells as blank rows in the output table?
Public Function ConvertRangeToHTMLTable(rInput As Range) As String 'Declare variables Dim rRow As Range Dim rCell As Range Dim strReturn As String 'Define table format and font strReturn = " " 'Loop through each row in the range For Each rRow In rInput.Rows 'Start new html row strReturn = strReturn & " " For Each rCell In rRow.Cells 'If it is row 1 then it is header row that need to be bold If rCell.Row = 1 Then strReturn = strReturn & "" & rCell.Text & " " Else strReturn = strReturn & "" & rCell.Text & " " End If Next rCell 'End a row strReturn = strReturn & " " Next rRow 'Close the font tag strReturn = strReturn & "" 'Return html format ConvertRangeToHTMLTable = strReturn End Function
Hello, great, that’s exactly what I was looking for.
I added a small function for wrap text in the cells.
BR Karl-Heinz
Function WrapText(strValue As String) As String
‘*Declare variables
Dim strtxt As String, i As Long, MyValues
‘*Split value from Cell with chr(10) to get more lines
MyValues = Split(strValue, Chr(10))
‘*Create temp string with breaks
For i = LBound(MyValues) To UBound(MyValues)
strtxt = strtxt & IIf(Len(strtxt) > 0, “”, “”) & MyValues(i)
Next i
WrapText = strtxt
End Function Public Function ConvertRangeToHTMLTable(rInput As Range) As String
‘*Declare variables
Dim rRow As Range
Dim rCell As Range
Dim strReturn As String
Dim strValue As String ‘*Define table format and font
strReturn = ” ”
‘*Loop through each row in the range
For Each rRow In rInput.Rows
‘*Start new html row
strReturn = strReturn & ” ”
For Each rCell In rRow.Cells
‘*If it is row 1 then it is header row that need to be bold
If rCell.Row = 1 Then
‘*Check if wrap-text is available
If InStr(1, rCell.Value, Chr(10), vbBinaryCompare) > 0 Then strValue = WrapText(rCell.Value) Else strValue = rCell.Value
strReturn = strReturn & “” & strValue & “”
Else
If InStr(1, rCell.Value, Chr(10), vbBinaryCompare) > 0 Then strValue = WrapText(rCell.Value) Else strValue = rCell.Value
strReturn = strReturn & “” & strValue & “”
End If
Next rCell
‘*End a row
strReturn = strReturn & “”
Next rRow
‘*Close the font tag
strReturn = strReturn & “”
‘*Return html format
ConvertRangeToHTMLTable = strReturn
End Function