Create an HTML page from one or more PowerShell objects.
Syntax ConvertTo-Html [[-head] string[] ] [[-title] string] [[-body] string[] ] [-CssUri Uri] [[-property] Object[] ] [-As {TABLE | LIST}] [-inputObject psobject] [-PreContent string[]] [-PostContent string[]] [CommonParameters] ConvertTo-Html [-Fragment] [[-property] Object[] ] [-As {TABLE | LIST}] [-inputObject psobject] [-PreContent string[]] [-PostContent string[]] [CommonParameters] Key -head string Text to include in the <head> element of the HTML output. default = "HTML TABLE"
If you specify -Head, the -Title parameter is ignored. -title string Text to include in the <title> element of the HTML output. -body string Text to include in the <body> element of the HTML. -Fragment
Generate only an HTML table. The HTML, HEAD, TITLE, and BODY tags are omitted. -inputObject psobject The objects to represent as an HTML table. A variable that contains the objects or a command/expression that gets the objects. If you submit multiple objects, such as all of the services on a computer,
ConvertTo-Html will display the properties of the collection / array.
To display the individual objects, use the pipeline operator to pipe the objects to ConvertTo-Html one at a time. -As string
Format the object as a table or a list. Valid values are TABLE or LIST. -CssUri Uri
The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the cascading style sheet The CSS URI is included as a style sheet link in the output. -property Object Properties of the input object to appear in the HTML table. -PreContent string[]
Text to add before the opening <TABLE> tag. -PostContent string[]
Text to add after the closing </TABLE> tag.
CommonParameters: -Verbose, -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -WarningAction, -WarningVariable, -OutBuffer -OutVariable.
The object property names appear as HTML table column headings.
Examples
Display the date as HTML on the console :
PS C:\> get-date | convertto-html
Save the system processes to C:\processes.html
PS C:\> Get-Process | ConvertTo-Html name,path,fileversion | Set-Content c:\processes.htm
Save the system services to C:\services.html
PS C:\> get-service | ConvertTo-Html -Title "Services" -Body "<H2>The result of get-service</H2> " -Property Name,Status > c:\services.html
Save the system services to C:\services.html and format in color (example from Hung Yuwu ):
PS C:\> get-service | ConvertTo-Html -Title "Services" -Body "<H2>The result of get-service</H2> " -Property Name,Status |
foreach {if($_ -like "*<td>Running</td>*"){$_ -replace "<tr>", "<tr bgcolor=green>"}elseif($_ -like "*<td>Stopped</td>*"){$_ -replace "<tr>", "<tr bgcolor=red>"}else{$_}} > c:\services.html
Save the system services to C:\services.html and format with css, then open the HTML page with Invoke-Item:
PS C:\> get-service | ConvertTo-Html -CssUri "SS64.css" > c:\services.html
PS C:\> Invoke-Item c:\services.html
Get events from the "Windows PowerShell" event log, select only the ID, Level, and Task properties and format as HTML:
PS C:\> get-eventlog -log "Windows PowerShell" | convertto-html -property id, level, task
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export-csv - Export to Comma Separated Values (spreadsheet).
Invoke-Item - Invoke an executable or open a file.