We have a database that is accessible online. People can search for records in our database and display them, e.g., as a table. In this format, the records are listed one per row, with fields as columns. We'd like the web users to be able to copy and paste these data tables into, e.g., an excel file, or text tile of some kind. This is possible, but the pasted text does not include any tab delimiters between columns. Each column is separated by a carriage return, and there isn't any special marker between records. This means the data appears as a single column, which is very user-unfriendly. Is there any way for the web user (as guest) to download the table in a useful format? I can't see any obvious options for this, and copying and pasting (which should be a no-brainer) is crippled by not including tab spaces between columns.

thanks for any suggestions, and my apologies if this is in the wrong place.

Unfortunately what you are really trying to do is effect the behavior of the browser that they are using. The default behavior when text is selected is just to copy the test and ignore the html that is used to show the data as columns which is not what you really want in this case.

My suggestion would be to use some javascript actually put the data in the clipboard of the user. There is no way to do this in filemaker directly so you will have to unfortunately edit the page that this table is displayed upon and add some javascript.

Sorry it's not easier!