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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 06/24/65 12:00
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed sukhmeet@gmail.com writing in
news:9f721bde-c030-47e2-a458-3149311e99e3@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com:
> Hi,
> I am trying to load a csv file in Iframe element. I just want to
> load it as a text file.
> however when i load the file in iframe it asks to open the file and
> finally opens it with excel in IE window itself. If i save the save
> file as .txt it is being read properly.I need to save the file in csv
> format only so that it can be edited externally with excel easily.
> Later on i want to display the read csv file in javascript and do some
> processing on it.
> Does any know how do this. The basic problem is to stop IE from
> invoking excel to open csv file and instead read the file as text.
>
> Following code works for .txt file
>
><iframe name="loader" id="frm" width="1000" height="300"
> style="visibility:hidden;display:none" src="Book1.txt"></iframe>
>
> and when i use this line it tries to open the file using excel which i
> don't want.
>
><iframe name="loader" id="frm" width="1000" height="300"
> style="visibility:hidden;display:none" src="Book1.csv"></iframe>
>
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks
> Sukhmeet
>
>
There really isn't anything you can do - it depends on the user's
browser and system. If the user's system wants to do that, it will.
By the way, .txt files can also be opened by Excel.
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