Displaytag Export Excel Issue - HTML Code inside the output excel file

Question

Some one has had the same problem before here in SO, but unfortunately no answer for that.

csv export using displaytag gives html tags in the output file

Am having the same problem here.

I have a table. I use display tag for exporting it in to Excel. It works fine.

Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Group |

A1 | B1 | C1 | G1
A2 | B2 | C2 | G2
A3 | B3 | C3 | G1
A4 | B4 | C4 | G2

Now, I have a feature called , group by , where it groups by a specific columns. The tables would change as

Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Group |

G1
A1 | B1 | C1 | G1
A3 | B3 | C3 | G1
G2
A2 | B2 | C2 | G2
A4 | B4 | C4 | G2

If I try to export this, am getting HTML tags tr and td inside the output excel file. Is it a bug?? or am I missing anything!!

Answer 1

This is a bug in TableDecorator. Unfortunately, even the demo page does not have a case like this!!!