What is application type for exbedding excel into browser

[davisty]

Hello,

Im trying to embed an excel file into a html page. Ive done this with PDF's
using the object tag. And it works correctly

<object data="/reports/pdftest.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="100%" height="100%"></object>

Im using:

<object data="/reports/xlstest.xls" type="application/vnd.ms-excel" width="100%" height="100%"></object>

But it's coming back with plugin not found. I believe that Im using the wrong version of applications type.

Has anyone had any experience with this?

Thank You

[MichaelCatalani]

Re: What is application type for exbedding excel into browser

You might look up and try the following:

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

[davisty]

Re: What is application type for exbedding excel into browser

Same thing. No plugin found.

I dont understand it, the ms.excel should make it open excel

[Scott Klement]

Re: What is application type for exbedding excel into browser

<object> is for embedding an object in the middle of an HTML page, and it does require a browser plugin. It's NOT the way to launch a document in an application. To download into an application, you can just link directly to the Excel document on your HTTP server. Or have a CGI program dump the raw document with (the proper content-type header) with content-disposition: attachment

[davisty]

Re: What is application type for exbedding excel into browser

Im using jquery to produce a modal screen. I actually adding a <object> tag into the <div> parent via jquery to produce the modal.

$("#pdf").empty();
$("#pdf").append('<object data="/reports/pdftest.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="100%" height="100%"></object>')

It works with pdf. I was hoping it would work with excel. I cant see why not.

But, what type of content-disposition should I use.

[MichaelCatalani]

Re: What is application type for exbedding excel into browser

Which browser / version are you attempting to use.

[davisty]

Re: What is application type for exbedding excel into browser

Mozilla and chrome. I use them first to get the bugs out, then I test in IE

Im using cgidev2 and jquery to make an ajax call. Im actually using scotts POI class prototypes to create the xls file.

I can use the ajax response to output to the div, but I dont know how to display it as excel

[jamief]

Re: What is application type for exbedding excel into browser

this looks like it may work -- maybe solution?

http://www.ajaxdemo.com/?opV0gna2

[davisty]

Re: What is application type for exbedding excel into browser

Looks cool. Right now Im not using php. Im using CGIDEV2.

But, thank you for the research

[gcraill]

Re: What is application type for exbedding excel into browser

Davisty - You also on V5R3 maybe ?