Output · Files

Write HTML

Saves the table as a plain HTML page with one table and an optional title. For a styled report, use Write Report.

Also known as: Web page

How it works

Type the HTML file name (output.html by default) and pick a Location; blank means the project folder. Title (optional) becomes the page title and the heading above the table. The file holds a single <table> with one row per input row and a plain built-in style: a sans-serif font, grey cell borders and a shaded header row, set inline so it looks the same in a browser or an email client. The write fails if the file already exists unless you tick Overwrite if the file already exists. Write formatted values writes values as they print upstream, such as $1,234.50, instead of raw numbers. The written file is passed on downstream as a File.

Inputs and outputs

Settings

{
  fileName: string
  directory?: string
  title?: string
  overwrite?: boolean
  formatValues?: boolean
}

Example

You want a quick page of this week's top sellers to open in a browser. Set the HTML file to top-sellers.html, Title to "Top sellers, week 41", tick Overwrite if the file already exists and Write formatted values so prices print with the currency set in Format Table. For a styled, multi-section page use Write Report with the HTML format.

More in Files

• Write CSV — Saves the table as a CSV file. It can create a new file, replace one (keeping a backup) or append to it; the delimiter, header and quoting are up to you.
• Write Excel — Writes one or more tables into named sheets of an Excel workbook. It can add to an existing workbook and keep its other sheets.
• Write JSON — Saves the table as a JSON file: one array of objects, or one object per line.
• Write Parquet — Saves the table as a compressed Parquet file that reloads fast here, in DuckDB, pandas or Spark. Good for large in-between results.
• Write XML — Saves the table as an XML file with one element per row. Both element names are up to you.
• Write Geo File — Saves a table with geometry as GeoJSON, GeoPackage, Shapefile or GeoParquet, ready to open in QGIS or ArcGIS. GeoParquet takes lon/lat data only.
• Write Locra Table — Saves the table with its column formats into one .ddtable file, so a colleague can pick it up in another project and see it printed the same way.