Data URI doesn't work with IE

Question

Im trying to dynamically create a CSV file using javascript that the user can download. This only has to work in IE.

The html the javascript generates looks somethi

Answer 1

Internet Explorer 10 doesn't support the data protocol on the a element. Per the documentation, the only supported elements/attributes are the following:

• object (images only)
• img
• input type=image
• link
• CSS declarations that accept a URL, such as background, backgroundImage, and so on.

You should know that what you're attempting to do smells like a phishing attempt; for this reason you shouldn't expect browsers to support this pattern. You can read more about data-uri phishing in the paper Phishing by data URI.

Answer 2

I had the same problem, I download the data uri in this way with Chrome:

var link = document.createElement("a");
link.download = dataItem.Filename;
link.href = data;
link.click();

But it does not work in Internet Explorer. I have found a library that works in Internet Explorer, https://github.com/rndme/download

The only issue for me is the dowload of files with longer MIME type like odt, docx, etc. For all the other kind of files it look great!