I could add that to the answer for a "fire and forget" option. Also the [download] attribute doesn't allow for a POST or anything exotic either. Your modern example is not quite right. It will "download" whatever the server returns. For ex, if you have an authentication error, it will return the login page or whatever the server returns and not the "downloaded file" itself. Imagine Breaker Imagine Breaker 1, 1 1 gold badge 10 10 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges.
For me this would be perfect but it doesn't not work on Firefox neither. Any idea? As mentioned in caniuse. So if your links points to another domain, it hardly works anywhere for now. For it to work on Firefox, do document. You can also do link. Show 3 more comments. Tomer 1, 13 13 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Chrome downloads, but Firefox just shows the picture. Saved me the time to test it only to find out it won't work. Latest Chrome Aug shows picture too because of an absurd security restriction so fail — user Chrome doesn't download for mp4 s — Nearoo.
Show 2 more comments. Mark Amery k 65 65 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Laura Chesches Laura Chesches 2, 17 17 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Also the Edge 13 implementations is buggy because the name of the file is ignored and instead you get a file with an id as the name. In my opinion, this is the correct answer to the question. The other answers make sense if you have to support older browsers and need a workaround.
I dont' think is needed. It's already setting the 'src:url' in the creation step. I had to used "window. Maybe because I wanted to download 12 things at the same time? Does not do anything in Chrome — jjxtra. This is base javascript function, so can be used in any platform where backend is in Javascript window. Rohit Parte Rohit Parte 2, 21 21 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. This is probably the easiest solution if you can set the contentType yourself. I use it as: window.
If admin doesn't want to show the URL to the user than? Works on Chrome, Firefox and IE8 and above. Ismail Farooq 5, 1 1 gold badge 23 23 silver badges 43 43 bronze badges.
EL missaoui habib EL missaoui habib 1, 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges. This also works if you don't append the link to the DOM. Unless headers returned from the server indicate to do otherwise, this will simply navigate to url , not download from it. Aaron Lelevier Aaron Lelevier Where is the download code? You're just adding an iframe — DevAB.
This does not work if your filePath has a querystring since submitting a form will overwrite the querystring in the action attribute. This also closes the websockets. This looks like a really complicated way to set window. Just window. The PDF file are stored in a folder named Files inside the project directory. URL window. Browser Compatibility. View Demo.
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You can of course use CSS to make it look like a button instead of a link. But what it actually is, is a link. So that's how it should be marked up. I haven't tried this, but it should work in theory. If you try to go to a location of a file that is downloaded, it prompts you to download rather than take you to that page.
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