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Excel Export on Safari / IPad

Excel Export on Safari / IPad

novacpnovacp Posts: 2Questions: 1Answers: 0
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I was trying to get the excel export to work properly within safari (IPad), but the button will not be shown.
I also browsed the datatable example pages here with IPad and the excel export isn't working either.
I know that flash is not supported, but also HTML5 does not work and it is strange in addition, that none of the examples on datatables.net work with IPad regarding the excel export. Does anyone have the same problem?

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  • Tom (DataTables)Tom (DataTables) Posts: 139Questions: 0Answers: 26
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    Currently Safari is not supported when using Excel HTML5, this is due to a bug in webkit. This is noted in the documentation excelHtml5.

    You could implement the file creation on the server side, but this is not something we currently support.

    Thanks

    Tom

  • novacpnovacp Posts: 2Questions: 1Answers: 0

    Thank you for the super fast answer Tom!
    I'm sorry that I missed the excelHtml5 browser support section within the link!

  • SinusiteSinusite Posts: 1Questions: 0Answers: 0

    OK but with Chrome on iPad, it should work right - the button is still invisble ? :)

  • allanallan Posts: 63,818Questions: 1Answers: 10,517 Site admin

    No. Chome on an iPad still just uses Webkit for the rendering - its just a skin over Safar basically (Apple won't allow Blink on iOS). That and the iPad doesn't have a user accessible file system, so the download files couldn't be saved anywhere.

    Allan

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