Downloadable files in html

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Web Technology. Cyber Security. C Programming. Control System. Data Mining. To trigger a file download on a button click we will use a custom function or HTML 5 download attribute. Approach 1: Using Download attribute The download attribute simply uses an anchor tag to prepare the location of the file that needs to be downloaded.

The name of the file can be set using the attribute value name, if not provided then the original filename will be used. Skip to content. Change Language. Related Articles. Table of Contents. Improve Article. Save Article. Like Article. Example: html. If you need to set the Content-Type lines as well, you could do so in the same manner, but I haven't found that necessary.

For more information click here. In a Ruby on Rails application especially with something like the Prawn gem and the Prawnto Rails plugin , you can accomplish this a little more simply than a full on script like the previous PHP example. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?

Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 13 years, 1 month ago. Active 1 year, 1 month ago. Viewed k times. If the Adobe Acrobat is not installed then it pop-up to the user for Downloading the file. Please tell me how i can do this? Improve this question. Rob W k 77 77 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Prashant Prashant Add a comment.

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Martin Gottweis 2, 11 11 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. This is a simple solution but unfortunately not very widely supported, esp. Yep, I know right. That's why I have the side-note on compatibility. And according to your source both IE and Safari don't support this approach, or at least not yet : Anyhow, if you want all browsers to force download I suggest checking some of the other answers instead The solution is easy but unfortunately not supported in IE and Safari.

Instead of linking to the. TravisO TravisO 9, 4 4 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 44 44 bronze badges. Please don't make up headers and send them. Could you update your answer.