How to export html value(not table) to a csv file with jquery?

Question

I have a page user can dynamic add or edit html value like below, and I need to save it to database, I found a way- php read csv file and then update to database, but now my problem is

How to export html value(not table) to a csv file with jquery?

<div class="list">
    <div class="number">1</div>
    <div class="text">a</div>
    <div class="text">a</div>
</div>
<div class="list">
    <div class="number">1</div>
    <div class="text">a</div>
    <div class="text">a</div>
</div>
..

Answer 1

if you don't have comma-containing strings:

var csv = jQuery(".list").map(function(a,i){
  return $.trim($(this).text()).split(/\s*\n\s*/).join(",");
}).toArray().join("\r\n");

alert(csv);

you can use my downloader at http://danml.com/js/download.js to download the csv variable like:

 download(csv, "tabledata.csv", "text/csv");