DataTables
stripHtml not working properly on individual column searching with select inputs
Hello everyone.
I added individual column searching to a datatable and when exporting the data to excel file the column names are extracted wrongly if the header contains filters with select input. The problem is on function stripHtml located in file dataTables.buttons.js. The regex does not work properly with select tags.
A test case can be found on the link below:
https://jsfiddle.net/simaosoares/8m5pqfde/
I ended up extracting the column names manually with custom format. Maybe another regex could be used instead or another way of extracting.
This is the problem in using regex to extract HTML. It is far from perfect. But doing it properly with DOM parsing is slow. I currently don't have any plans to change it, but if anyone has any suggestions for a fast way to do it, that would be most welcome.
Closing as stale. Use the body formatter option for the export data which gives access to the HTML elements and can be used on a case by case basis. It could be that we should auto detect
