Javascript new file download

Nicely done! Solves the problem well. However, you may want to use: iframe. Your current implementation will make the iframe invisible, but the iframe will still take up space at bottom of the page causing extra white space. It "semi" works for me. This is part of a larger mobile web app, and the fact that it gets canceled breaks the app because it raises a general web failure.

Any way around this? Nice snippet. However, setting a nonsensical things type is a bit disturbing. How do I force the download without a server?

So just an html page with some javascript. Show 5 more comments. John Culviner John Culviner Your modern example here doesn't seem to me to make a great deal of sense. MarkAmery that works too as other answers have indicated. That approach AFAIK doesn't give you feedback on when the download starts, when it completed and if it errored which is handy. 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. The download attribute simply uses an anchor tag to prepare the location of the file that needs to be downloaded. Create an anchor element Set the href attribute of the anchor element to the created object URL.

Set the download attribute to the filename of the file to be downloaded. This forces the anchor element to trigger a file download when it is clicked. You should now see the file you recently downloaded with a date and time. Automatic downloading files help us retrieve files directly from the URL with a JavaScript function without contacting any servers. We will achieve this using our custom written functions and using the download attribute of HTML 5.

The download attribute in HTML 5 is used to download files when users click on the hyperlink. We are required to set the href attribute specifying the source of the file. The value of the download attribute determines the name of the downloaded file. Click on link method also have not such problem as empty window in Chrome or Safari. However we can create hidden link and programmatically click on it by dispatching new mouse event.

What else can annoy user? And it can be avoided by using HTML5 download attribute. This attribute will tell browser that virtual link we created is aimed for download only.

Project on GitHub. Header also has one more advantage — it prevents some file types e. Thank you for this code. It works great for Chrome in Windows but with Chrome on iPad the file opens in the browser instead of downloading. 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. However, the download attribute only works in modern browsers. Internet Explorer does not support it.