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• allan Posts: 63,161Questions: 1Answers: 10,406 Site admin

  September 2016

  is the Flash fallback still provided for older browsers?

  If you use the csv, excel, etc button types and also include the buttons.flash.js file, then yes.

  Allan
• iecwebmast Posts: 66Questions: 9Answers: 1

  September 2016 edited September 2016

  So, it will not work if I use excelHtml5, pdfHtml5?
  I've included buttons.flash.js
• iecwebmast Posts: 66Questions: 9Answers: 1

  September 2016 Answer ✓

  I've reread the information provided on the html and standard buttons explanation links cited in my original question.

  https://datatables.net/extensions/buttons/examples/initialisation/export.html
  Buttons provides button types that will automatically determine if HTML5 or Flash should be used based on the browser's functionality and it is strongly recommended that you use these button types over the specific HTML5 or Flash button types. These are: copy, csv, excel, pdf.

  and...
  https://datatables.net/extensions/buttons/examples/html5/simple.html
  Please note that the copy, excel, csv and pdf button types may also use the HTML5 button types noted here, providing a Flash fallback for older browsers (IE9-).

  So that answers it! Flash fallback will NOT work if you specifiy excelHtml5 and pdfHtml5

  Sorry for not picking that up on a first read through.