# Saving HTML Table object(s)

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/saving-html-table-object-s/10190>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [15 April 2019 21:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/saving-html-table-object-s/10190 "2019-04-15T21:23:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![justinsroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@justinsroy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/justinsroy)\
**Post date:** [15 April 2019 21:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/saving-html-table-object-s/10190/1 "2019-04-15T21:23:45Z")

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![Alarms](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/9/9ef3337aeb75851b46113c9f6aacec880482372a.jpeg)

Blocked out the data for personal reasons.

Essentially I am passing images from a MongoDB to NodeRed and parsing the actual image file back to base64 to create a set of up to 100 images (records) and the "alarm" description. The table is done in HTML template with input coming from Mongo Query.

With 3 pieces of information that is "linked" together (Time, Alarm, Image) the information separately does no good.

What I'm trying to determine if there is a good way to download the full table (images included) in a logical way.

**Methods tried:**  
Excel download - Formatted properly, rows/columns exist but images are not saved properly.

![Alarms1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/b/b354a1e8ce8c179731313b49c91f06fc0a7cff90.jpeg)

Canvas-\>Table inside Canvas: this one has yielded little success. Idea: Make a canvas and have the table inside (yielding an image that could be saved, removing search-ability but easy to view). Either I don't fully understand how HTML canvas drawing works or Node-Red handles some things differently. I got a blank canvas when linking table to canvas by object ID of table.

SelectAll/Copy/Paste: This one works, pasting into a doc has everything formatted in table, but not automated/scripted.

Looking for a way to "triggered"/on button press to save the current table contents and save them. CtrlP/print to PDF and such work fine. Looking specifically to save the table or an object similar in nature.

I cannot post/link the flow because of data/security reasons.

If there is a better option for managing data that needs to be in a format with 3 columns and 100 rows I am also open to changing the HTML. I am not an expect in best practices for frontend, this is only going to be used for creating a report.