0 Replies Latest reply: Apr 9, 2010 12:33 PM by barnzoid RSS

    how to fix IE8 download-link problem?

    barnzoid Community Member

      Here is a snippet of html code used in Dreamweaver CS4 to place a download link in a table. The PDF download works correctly in all browsers but the Excel file download does not work in IE8. MS Internet Explorer tries to open/download the MS Excel file as a zip archive. Go figure.

        <tr>

          <td width="50%" scope="col"><div align="center">Read more in the downloadable file(s):</div></td>

          <td><div align="center"><a href="Downloads/Numberz-20100228.xlsx"><img src="Images/excel-icon.jpg" alt="na" name="xlsx" width="25" height="22" id="xls" /></a></div></td>

                <td><div align="center"><a href="Downloads/Commentz-20100228.pdf"><img src="Images/pdf-icon.gif" alt="na" name="pdf" width="32" height="32" id="pdf" /></a></div></td>

        </tr>

       

      Anyone have a clue why Microsoft can't recognize one of its own file types?

      Is there a better way to code this?