Active 4 months ago. Viewed k times. If you want to save the picture, then you need to right click on it and select "save as" I don't want this behaviour, I would like to have a download box popping out when I click on the link, is that possible just with html or javascript?
Pierre Pierre 4, 12 12 gold badges 51 51 silver badges 72 72 bronze badges. Here is an easy way of doing using this PHP class: tutorialchip. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. ArlichBachman 51 6 6 bronze badges.
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Although you need modernizr, I now use it in all my projects so I'll accept your answer as the new answer — Pierre. I think you might have misunderstood the role of Modernizr here. In short, it doesn't add functionality that's missing GauravManral what seams to be the problem? GauravManral: IE doesn't support it, as mentioned in the answer.
Look at the caniuse link provided. MDN Docs — cespon. In an effort to make modern browsers more user friendly, their developers have started to display content inside the web browser that used to require an additional application to view or a user may want to download instead.
Many browsers such as Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Google Chrome have the default behavior of viewing the file in the browser window instead of prompting the user to save the file to a location.
As long as you have the ability to edit the HTML code of the page, you can use a simple HTML tweak that will allow you to control when the file download prompt appears if the user clicks a link or a button. In some cases, the name of the file that is stored on the web server is not the most useful to the user. W3Schools is optimized for learning and training. Examples might be simplified to improve reading and learning. Tutorials, references, and examples are constantly reviewed to avoid errors, but we cannot warrant full correctness of all content.
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This doesn't necessarily trigger a download. It simply causes the browser to navigate to file. Whether that results in file. Show 3 more comments. Ani Menon What if i wanna download a xml file? Thanks for your code.
I have tested, it can working in IE, Chrome, Firefox. If you have a file acceptable by the browser like a PDF it will open in new tab instead to show download dialog. You could use window. Show 1 more comment. Stefanos Chrs Stefanos Chrs 1, 2 2 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 44 44 bronze badges.
NicholasKyriakides Kind of reminds me of this gem: image. BryanLarsen You are right, Firefox doesn't allow this without adding the element to body first. Thank you, updating the answer — Stefanos Chrs. Is there a way that javascript function be triggered once the download finishes? Just trying to show a message once downloads start and remove the message once download completes. This is best solution out here and should be accepted answer. Show 6 more comments.
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Perfect, thanks. Do you happen to know if most servers will set the Content-Disposition to 'attachment' by default? There is no "most. Don't rely on it being set. This issue has been driving me ballistic, and this was the only option that worked and is supported by IE. No jquery. This doest work if you're trying to download an image, it would open the image in the browser — Dheeraj.
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