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Asked: 2026-05-10T17:44:56+00:00

I have the following function that is pulling data from a database. The ajax

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I have the following function that is pulling data from a database. The ajax call is working correctly. How can I send the tab delimited data in my success function to the user? Setting the contect type to ‘application/vnd.ms-excel’ didn’t work. The alert on success shows the correctly formatted data.

     function SendToExcel() {        $.ajax({            type: 'GET',            url: '/Search.aspx',            contentType: 'application/vnd.ms-excel',            dataType: 'text',            data: '{id: '' + 'asdf' + ''}',            success: function(data) {               alert(data);            },            error: function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {               alert(jqXHR.responseText);        }});      }

I don’t want to display the data in the browser–I want to send it to Excel.

EDIT: I found a way to do what I wanted. Instead of redirecting the users to a new page that would prompt them to save/open an Excel file, I opened the page inside a hidden iframe. That way, the users click a button, and they are prompted to save/open an Excel file. No page redirection. Is it Ajax? No, but it solves the real problem I had.

Here’s the function I’m calling on the button click:

     function SendToExcel() {         var dataString = 'type=excel' +             '&Number=' + $('#txtNumber').val() +              '&Reference=' + $('#txtReference').val()          $('#sltCTPick option').each(function (i) {              dataString = dataString + '&Columns=' + this.value;         });          top.iExcelHelper.location.href = '/Reports/JobSearchResults.aspx?' + dataString;;      }
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  1. AJAX is… the wrong choice. Redirect the user to a server resource that will send the data down with the proper MIME type, and let the browser figure out what to do with it.

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