HTML to Excel Converter
Nothing leaves your browser — HTML parsing and export both run locally in JavaScript. This tool can't fetch a live URL for you (browsers block that for security); paste the page source or the table's HTML instead.
Why this HTML to Excel converter processes files in your browser
The tools ranking for "html to excel" — coolutils.com, convertio.co, tableconvert.com, better-converter.com — mostly ask you to upload an .html file or fetch a URL server-side, which means the page's content passes through their server first. For a table you copied from an internal dashboard, an admin panel, or anything behind a login, that's a real exposure most people don't think about.
This tool parses HTML entirely in your browser's JavaScript — no upload, and no server-side URL fetch at all (which also isn't technically possible from a static page for cross-origin pages anyway, due to browser security policies). Paste the HTML you already have, and the conversion happens locally.
How it works
Paste HTML into the text box (view-source of a page, or just the outerHTML of one table you copied from DevTools), or drop a saved .html file. The tool scans for every <table> element and shows you a checklist — select which ones to include, since a real page often has a data table you want alongside navigation or layout tables you don't.
Each selected table becomes its own sheet in the exported workbook. Header detection follows the same convention browsers use: a <thead> row, or a first row where every cell is a <th>, becomes the column headers; everything else is data. Column-spanning and row-spanning cells (colspan/rowspan) are resolved into the actual grid position they'd occupy when rendered — a header cell that spans two columns fills both, and a cell with rowspan="2" carries its value into the row below it, exactly as it would look on screen.
Nested tags inside a cell (bold text, links, spans) are stripped down to their plain text content, and HTML entities (&, , numeric entities) are decoded, so what lands in each spreadsheet cell is clean readable text rather than markup.
What's included
Multiple tables in one paste, each becoming its own labeled sheet — a gap in several of the free tools we checked, which only pull the first table found. A live preview of every selected table before export, so you can confirm colspan/rowspan resolved the way you expected.
Export as .xlsx (one sheet per table, with frozen headers and auto-filter on by default) or .csv for the first selected table, for workflows that expect a flat CSV.
Limitations, and when to reach for something else
This tool can't fetch a live URL itself — that's a browser security restriction (CORS), not a missing feature, and any tool that claims to "just paste a URL" is fetching it server-side, which is exactly the upload step this tool avoids. Instead, open the page, use "View Page Source" (or copy a table's HTML from your browser's DevTools), and paste that.
A <table> nested inside another <table>'s cell is a known edge case: the parser targets the common, non-nested case, so a nested inner table's rows may appear flattened into the outer table's cell rather than split out as their own sheet. If you're starting from JSON or a spreadsheet instead of a web page, use JSON to Excel or CSV to XLSX linked below.
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Frequently asked questions
Can I just paste a URL instead of the HTML?
No — browsers block a static page like this one from fetching another site's content directly (a security restriction called CORS), and any tool claiming to accept a URL is fetching it on a server, which means your data passes through that server. Instead, open the page, use "View Page Source" or copy the table's HTML from DevTools, and paste that here.
Is my HTML uploaded anywhere?
No. Parsing every <table>, resolving colspan/rowspan, and building the .xlsx file all run in your browser using JavaScript — nothing is sent to a server.
How are colspan and rowspan handled?
They're resolved into the grid position the cell would actually occupy when the table renders: a header cell with colspan="2" fills both columns with its value, and a cell with rowspan="2" carries its value down into the next row at the same column, so the exported spreadsheet matches what you'd see on screen.
What if the page has more than one table?
Every <table> element found in what you paste is listed with a checkbox, so you can pick exactly which ones to export. Each selected table becomes its own sheet in the downloaded workbook.
Does this preserve cell colors, bold text, or borders?
No — cell content is extracted as plain text (any inner tags like <b> or <a> are stripped down to their text). This keeps the exported data clean for further analysis rather than embedding page styling into the spreadsheet.