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Standalone Browser Scripts

Each standalone release script is available at https://cdn.sheetjs.com/.

The current version is 0.20.0 and can be referenced as follows:

<!-- use version 0.20.0 -->
<script lang="javascript" src="https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-0.20.0/package/dist/xlsx.full.min.js"></script>

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A number of services host older versions of the SheetJS libraries. Due to syncing issues, they are generally out of date.

The SheetJS CDN https://cdn.sheetjs.com/ is the authoritative source for SheetJS scripts

Browser Scripts​

xlsx.full.min.js is the complete standalone script. It includes support for reading and writing many spreadsheet formats.

<!-- use xlsx.full.min.js from version 0.20.0 -->
<script lang="javascript" src="https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-0.20.0/package/dist/xlsx.full.min.js"></script>

A slimmer build is generated at dist/xlsx.mini.min.js. Compared to full build:

  • codepage library skipped (no support for XLS encodings)
  • no support for XLSB / XLS / Lotus 1-2-3 / SpreadsheetML 2003 / Numbers
  • node stream utils removed
How to integrate the mini build (click to show)

Replace references to xlsx.full.min.js with xlsx.mini.min.js. Starting from scratch, a single script tag should be added at the top of the HTML page:

<!-- use xlsx.mini.min.js from version 0.20.0 -->
<script lang="javascript" src="https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-0.20.0/package/dist/xlsx.mini.min.js"></script>

Vendoring​

For general stability, "vendoring" scripts is the recommended approach:

1) Download the script (xlsx.full.min.js) for the desired version. The current version is available at https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-0.20.0/package/dist/xlsx.full.min.js

2) Move the script to a public folder with other scripts.

3) Reference the local script from HTML pages:

<script src="/public/xlsx.full.min.js"></script>

This script assigns to window.XLSX. The global can be used in other scripts.

Internet Explorer and Older Browsers​

For broad compatibility with JavaScript engines, the library is written using ECMAScript 3 language dialect. A "shim" script provides implementations of functions for older browsers and environments.

Due to SSL compatibility issues, older versions of IE will not be able to use the CDN scripts directly. They should be downloaded and saved to a public directory in the site:

Add a script reference to the shim before the standalone script:

<!-- add the shim first -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="shim.min.js"></script>
<!-- after the shim is referenced, add the library -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="xlsx.full.min.js"></script>

Web Workers​

The standalone scripts can be loaded using importScripts at the top of the worker scripts:

importScripts("https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-0.20.0/package/dist/shim.min.js");
importScripts("https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-0.20.0/package/dist/xlsx.full.min.js");

ECMAScript Module Imports​

This section refers to imports using script type="module". For imports in modern projects using Webpack or React or Angular or VueJS, the installation is described in "Frameworks and Bundlers".

The ECMAScript Module build is saved to xlsx.mjs and can be directly added to a page with a script tag using type="module":

<script type="module">
import { read, writeFileXLSX } from "https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-0.20.0/package/xlsx.mjs";
</script>

If Encoding support is required, cpexcel.full.mjs must be manually imported:

<script type="module">
/* load the codepage support library for extended support with older formats  */
import { set_cptable } from "https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-0.20.0/package/xlsx.mjs";
import * as cptable from 'https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-0.20.0/package/dist/cpexcel.full.mjs';
set_cptable(cptable);
</script>

Web Worker support is noted in the "Web Workers" demo

Dynamic Imports​

Dynamic imports with import() will only download the SheetJS scripts when they are used. This example will download the library when data is exported:

<button id="xport">Export</button>
<script type="module">
xport.addEventListener("click", async() => {

  /* dynamically import the script in the event listener */
  const XLSX = await import("https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-0.20.0/package/xlsx.mjs");

  const wb = XLSX.utils.book_new();
  const ws = XLSX.utils.aoa_to_sheet([["a","b","c"],[1,2,3]]);
  XLSX.utils.book_append_sheet(wb, ws, "Sheet1");
  XLSX.writeFile(wb, "SheetJSESMTest.xlsx");
});
</script>

The callback functions must be marked as async and the script block must have the attribute type="module"

If Encoding support is required, cpexcel.full.mjs must be manually imported:

<button id="xport">Export</button>
<script type="module">
xport.addEventListener("click", async() => {

  /* dynamically import the scripts in the event listener */
  const XLSX = await import("https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-0.20.0/package/xlsx.mjs");
  const cptable = await import("https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-0.20.0/package/dist/cpexcel.full.mjs");
  XLSX.set_cptable(cptable);

  const wb = XLSX.utils.book_new();
  const ws = XLSX.utils.aoa_to_sheet([["a","b","c"],[1,2,3]]);
  XLSX.utils.book_append_sheet(wb, ws, "Sheet1");
  XLSX.writeFile(wb, "SheetJSESMTest.xlsx");
});
</script>

Bower​

Bower is deprecated and the maintainers recommend using other tools.

The Bower package manager plays nice with the CDN tarballs:

npx bower install https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-0.20.0/xlsx-0.20.0.tgz

Bower will place the standalone scripts in bower_components/js-xlsx/dist/