Juca Duarte Juca Duarte 91 6 6 bronze badges. David Willhite David Willhite 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. Change it to your own relative path. Explanation I noticed there were comments under a lot of the answers that said the browser would just try to open the file itself rather than downloading it depending on the file type. However, Button 1 would download the file for file types that it couldn't open itself for example,.
Button 2 downloaded the text file. However, Button 2 only downloaded the file if the path was relative. When I changed the path to an absolute path, then the browser opened it in a new tab. I tested this on Firefox, Safari, and Chrome.
Suragch Suragch k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Like other solutions here that use a default form action, this doesn't necessarily trigger a download. It simply causes the browser to navigate to the target URL. Whether that results in the file at that URL being downloaded or being shown as a page in the browser depends upon the headers returned by the server when it serves the file and on what file types the browser is capable of rendering.
Ronaldo Ronaldo 79 2 2 bronze badges. For Chrome it is a great solution — Hayk Aramyan. Doesn't work in Safari either: W3 Schools — Alex. Not working in the MS browsers is a rather big problem and Chrome is not always going to be the answer. Not legal HTML; validator. Gleb Dolzikov Gleb Dolzikov 6 6 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges.
I had a button that would download an in-memory string as a file. This worked, no problems. Simplest solution ever. Sebi Nechita Sebi Nechita 11 3 3 bronze badges. BananaAcid 2, 31 31 silver badges 34 34 bronze badges. Bellash Bellash 6, 4 4 gold badges 42 42 silver badges 79 79 bronze badges. For me ading button instead of anchor text works really well. Brana Brana 1, 3 3 gold badges 16 16 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges.
This only works because your browser doesn't support. Your HTML is invalid. This answer was two years old when you commented that.
Mark Mark 1. I don't think that's the problem here. Also the "absolute" path isn't needed if the link is in the same path as the file. Rocket - you are, of course, correct about the absolute path, however, it is the best way to make certain to get it right. I will leave it to the OP to decide if it was helpful - — Mark.
Even after adding download attributes it will not work for cross-domain. The Overflow Blog. Podcast An oral history of Stack Overflow — told by its founding team.
Millinery on the Stack: Join us for Winter Summer? In my case, the file is already properly named but you can set it thanks to filename if needed. You could try a workaround and serve the unzipped files from a Flash object, but then you'd lose the JS-only purity anyway, I'm not sure whether you currently can "drag files into browser" without some sort of Flash workaround - is that a HTML5 feature maybe?
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Learn more. Asked 11 years, 2 months ago. Active 2 months ago. Viewed k times. I know it'd be better to do it serverside, but this project is just for a bit of fun. My issue is downloading the files at the end. Can anyone think of another solution or some kind of workaround? Improve this question. Syscall Mikee Mikee 2, 2 2 gold badges 16 16 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. Current support is, unfortunately, rather limited — Casebash. Yes, indeed, in is so. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.
Improve this answer. You can simplify that with link. Nice solution. The variable 'link' goes out of the scope at the end of the function note we never added it to the dom so will be garbage collected shortly after.
You can either use the anchor's download attribute or programmatically create an object URL in JavaScript. The download attribute was added to the anchor element in HTML 5. It informs the browser to download the requested URL instead of navigating to it. You can also specify an optional value for the download attribute to be used as a file name once it is downloaded. If the value is not provided, the original filename is used. As you can see above, the download attribute is the easiest way to download a file on the browser.
Then we also created a download button to facilitate downloading files. This approach will create text data on the fly and then use JavaScript to create a text file and then download it. Attach an event listener looking for a click to a download button. In this approach, we will use the Axios library to download files.
Blob stands for Binary Large Object and is a data type that can store binary data. This method is not restricted to the plain text entered by the user like the previous method.
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