Cfheader works with firefox or opera, but not with IE. why?

Question

Good morning at all.
i have a problem with Internet Explorer and the download of a
excel file created by filling a table with the result of a query.
how it work?
click button => call create_excel.cfm =>
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment;
filename=#dbtest#.xls">
<cfcontent type="application/vnd.ms-excel" reset="yes"
>
<cfoutput>
<cfloop query_with_data>
<....
table ...
</cfloop>
<cfoutput>
with firefox or opera, all version, when i click the button
witch call the page that create the excel file, i obtain the excel
file correctly.
If i use Internet Explorer,
the first click on the button says : (Italian to english
translation)
Impossible to download create_excel.cfm the I DO NOTHING and
the second time that i click on the SAME BUTTON i obtain the
correct xls file!
i'm not able to solve =(
any idea?
thanks
bye!

Answer 1

Hi Gary,
It's probably just because the border widths you are specifying are too small (or WebKit is interpreting picas differently to Firefox/IE - I say WebKit as the same problem is visible in Google Chrome and that uses WebKit like Safari as well).
Try setting using this instead:
.borders {
font-family: Verdana;
font-size: 10px;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
font-variant: normal;
color: #cccccc;
text-decoration: none;
border: 1px solid #888888;
That seems to do the trick for Firefox and Chrome on this Linux machine I'm using at the moment.