jQuery ASCII is an extrimally simple & lightweight (~1,5kb) jQuery plugin for HTML-TO-ASCII table converting.

• Author: Vladimir Kostyukov http://vkostyukov.ru
• License: Apache 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html)
• Project page: https://github.com/vkostyukov/jquery-ascii

Source table

<table id="html-table">
	<tr><th>Header 1</th><th>Header 2</th></tr>
	<tr><td>Cell 1</td><td>Cell 2</td></tr>
	<tr><td>Cell 3</td><td>Cell 4</td></tr>
</table>

Target block

<div id="ascii-table"></div>

jQuery code

$(document).ready(function() {
	$("#ascii-table").html($("#html-table").ascii());
});

Result table in #ascii-table block

+---------------------+
| Header 1 | Header 2 |
+---------------------+
| Cell 1   | Cell 2   |
| Cell 3   | Cell 4   |
+---------------------+

There is also raw format available for generated table. This format uses native symbols for spaces and newlines. The raw format can be specified by following:

$("#html-table").ascii("raw")

See demo.html for more details.