This is the 4th post of a series of posts about NPOI 2.0.

This time we’re gonna see how easy it is to grab a .XLS file and then have it converted to HTML code.

Note: in NPOI 2.0.6 only XLS format is supported. XLSX support is coming in a future release (maybe 2.1) because it still needs more testing.

Enough said , let’s get to the code:

using NPOI.HSSF.Converter;
using NPOI.HSSF.UserModel;
using System;
using System.IO;

namespace NPOI.Examples.ConvertExcelToHtml
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            HSSFWorkbook workbook;
            // Excel file to convert
            string fileName = "19599-1.xls";
            fileName = Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, fileName);
            workbook = ExcelToHtmlUtils.LoadXls(fileName);


            ExcelToHtmlConverter excelToHtmlConverter = new ExcelToHtmlConverter();

            // Set output parameters
            excelToHtmlConverter.OutputColumnHeaders = false;
            excelToHtmlConverter.OutputHiddenColumns = true;
            excelToHtmlConverter.OutputHiddenRows = true;
            excelToHtmlConverter.OutputLeadingSpacesAsNonBreaking = false;
            excelToHtmlConverter.OutputRowNumbers = true;
            excelToHtmlConverter.UseDivsToSpan = true;

            // Process the Excel file
            excelToHtmlConverter.ProcessWorkbook(workbook);

            // Output the HTML file
            excelToHtmlConverter.Document.Save(Path.ChangeExtension(fileName, "html"));
        }
    }
}

The code above was taken from ConvertExcelToHtml sample project.

Here’s the sample spreadsheet open in Excel for Mac that was used as input:

Figure 1 - Excel spreadsheet to be converted to HTML code

This is the HTML generated:

Figure 2 - HTML output code generated from the conversion

Note that I used a screenshot above but it depicts the .html file (check the browser’s address bar).

Enjoy and have fun!