*Don't use this Gist!* If you're looking to work with CSVs in Javascript, give [Tabular.js](http://aaboyles.com/Tabular.js/) a try. It was designed after this gist to provide a more complete solution to CSV handling in Javascript. Given a table element (or jQuery-selected table), returns a string which can be used as download URL for the table i…

table2CSV.js

function table2CSV(table, delim){
  var csv = "data:application/csv;charset=utf-8,";
  if(table instanceof HTMLElement){
    table = $(table);
  }
  if(table instanceof jQuery){
    var regex = /,/g;
    if(delim){
      regex = new RegExp(delim, 'g');
      delim = encodeURIComponent(delim);
    } else {
      delim = '%2C';
    }
    var rows = table.find("tr");
    rows.each(function(index, row){
      var cells = [];
      $(row).find("th, td").each(function(index2, cell){
        cells.push($(cell).text().replace(regex, ''));
      });
      csv += cells.join(delim) + '%0A';
    });
  }
  return csv;
}

Don't use this Gist! If you're looking to work with CSVs in Javascript, give Tabular.js a try. It was designed after this gist to provide a more complete solution to CSV handling in Javascript.