rbholder:

Another alternative may be limit your HTML to a set that Excel recognizes, along with an appropriate content header. Then they can see the spreadsheet on the screen, and if they download it, it can save to a file with an .xls extension. I've done it before, and it worked very nicely. I don't recall what the stripped down HTML is, off the top of my head, but I can tell you how I got to it.

I simply created a spreadsheet with the formatting I wanted, and saved it as HTML. Then, I started chopping out the "cruft" bits (of which there are many), paring it down until Excel would still open it successfully, and simple enough to generate.

Note: This technique may not be acceptable in todays .CSS / dynamic / whizz-bang web application world, though.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re: Redirect to an XLSX spreadsheet by roboticus
in thread Redirect to an XLSX spreadsheet by rbholder

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