On click download file javascript

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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. Regardless of whether there's a downside to this solution, per se, you haven't provided any upside to using this over a link.

And there is a downside: you can't use the download attribute this way to tell the browser that you want a download regardless of what headers the server returns, which you can do with an a element. I ended up using the below snippet and it works in most browsers, not tested in IE though. Abk Abk 1, 1 1 gold badge 19 19 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges.

What's the point of using MouseEvent here instead of always using click? And why append the link to the document before clicking it? Maybe this has advantages over the simpler approach shown in stackoverflow. It's been a while I posted this answer. I can't remember if there's any reason behind those unnecessary lines of code.

Maciej Krawczyk Maciej Krawczyk 11k 5 5 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges. La masse La masse 1, 1 1 gold badge 8 8 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges. How is this an improvement? It appears to simply be a more complicated way of doing the same thing. Urmas Repinski Urmas Repinski 1 1 silver badge 6 6 bronze badges. File is getting downloaded but its always corrupt.

Any suggestions? Thank you — Shrivaths Kulkarni. Maybe just have your javascript open a page that just downloads a file, like when you drag a download link to a new tab: Window.

This creates a popup window, which most browsers block — Ashton Wiersdorf. This is just the same approach as shown in Imagine Breaker's answer years earlier, but with the added downside of requiring jQuery. Donny V. Itamar Smirra Itamar Smirra 46 5 5 bronze badges. It just requires a little adjusting: The PHP file can call itself. I don't see the relevance here. Ifch0o1 Ifch0o1 1 1 gold badge 12 12 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges.

Fawad Ali Fawad Ali 5 5 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Note: Not supported in all browsers. Setting CORS headers does not help. Don't ever do this — Wannes. John Weisz This does not work, if your file, for example, is an image, since it would just be opened in the browser.

Another issue occurs which is if the file is missing it navigates the entire page to a page — Hugheth. It works perfectly in for every file , and it is the simplest solution of all. Hello I just include the word 'download' and works well. 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. 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. This method is helpful to create an object URL that represents a blob or a file. The browser will release all object URLs when the document is closed or reloaded. However, it is a good practice to release object URLs whenever they are no longer required to improve performance and minimize memory usage.

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