Question

How to use javascript or jQuery to open an excel html file in excel from the browser?

I’ve been trying to just use the window.open(href) to open an html excel file. It location on server is: /server/excelfiles/myexcel.xls, and I’m trying to open it in an excel app and not in an active x control in IE browser. Its this even possible to open up a file in the application instead of the browser?

Answer 1

Two methods:

<a href="/server/excelfiles/myexcel.xls" target="_blank">open myexcel.xls</a> 

or via JS:

function openExcelFile(strFilePath) {
    if (window.ActiveXObject) {
        try {
            var objExcel;
            objExcel = new ActiveXObject("Excel.Application");
            objExcel.Visible = true;
            objExcel.Workbooks.Open(strLocation, false, [readonly: true|false]);
        }
        catch (e) {
            alert (e.message);
        }
    }
    else {
        alert ("Your browser does not support this.");
    }
}