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Code Snippet #29: The code shows us how to click a input button to invoke a file download in tag using jQuery. Since triggering click event on a hyperlink with jQuery may not behave the way you expect it to behave like it behaves with an input button or any other element. Unfortunately pointing the main window's URL at your file download means you have little control over what the user experience is when a file download occurs. I created jQuery File Download which allows for an 'Ajax like' experience with file downloads complete with OnSuccess and OnFailure callbacks to provide for a better user experience.
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I have a very similar requirement specified here.
I need to have the user's browser start a download manually when
$('a#someID').click();
But I cannot use the
window.href
method, since it replaces the current page contents with the file you're trying to download. Instead I want to open the download in new window/tab. How is this possible?
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Use an invisible
<iframe>
:To force the browser to download a file it would otherwise be capable of rendering (such as HTML or text files), you need the server to set the file's MIME Type to a nonsensical value, such as
application/x-please-download-me
or alternatively application/octet-stream
, which is used for arbitrary binary data.If you only want to open it in a new tab, the only way to do this is for the user to a click on a link with its
target
attribute set to _blank
.In jQuery:
Whenever that link is clicked, it will download the file in a new tab/window.
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2019 modern browsers update
This is the approach I'd now recommend with a few caveats:
- A relatively modern browser is required
- If the file is expected to be very large you should likely do something similar to the original approach (iframe and cookie) because some of the below operations could likely consume system memory at least as large as the file being downloaded and/or other interesting CPU side effects.
2012 original jQuery/iframe/cookie based approach
I have created the jQuery File Download plugin (Demo) (GitHub) which could also help with your situation. It works pretty similarly with an iframe but has some cool features that I have found quite handy:
- Very easy to setup with nice visuals (jQuery UI Dialog, but not required), everything is tested too
- User never leaves the same page they initiated a file download from. This feature is becoming crucial for modern web applications
- successCallback and failCallback functions allow for you to be explicit about what the user sees in either situation
- In conjunction with jQuery UI a developer can easily show a modal telling the user that a file download is occurring, disband the modal after the download starts or even inform the user in a friendly manner that an error has occurred. See the Demo for an example of this. Hope this helps someone!
Here is a simple use case demo using the plugin source with promises. The demo page includes many other, 'better UX' examples as well.
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Check if your target browser(s) will run the above snippet smoothly:
http://caniuse.com/#feat=download
Stephanhttp://caniuse.com/#feat=download
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I'm surprised not a lot of people know about the download attribute for a elements. Please help spread the word about it! You can have a hidden html link, and fake a click on it. If the html link has the download attribute it downloads the file, not views it, no matter what. Here's the code. It will download a cat picture if it can find it.
Note:This is not supported on all browsers: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_download.asp
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I recommend using html5 for download instead of jQuery:
This will download your file, without opening it.
Laura CheschesLaura Chesches
If you are already using jQuery, you could take adventage of it to produce a smaller snippet
A jQuery version of Andrew's answer:
corbachocorbachoA jQuery version of Andrew's answer:
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Simple example using an
iframe
Then just call the function wherever you want:
downloadURL('path/to/my/file');
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Only seven years later here comes a one line jQuery solution using a form instead of an iframe or link:
I've tested this in
- Chrome 55
- Firefox 50
- Edge IE8-10
- iOS 10 (Safari/Chrome)
- Android Chrome
If anyone knows of any downsides with this solution I'd be very happy to hear about them.
Full demo:
rakaloofrakaloof
This could be helpful if you are not require to navigate another page.This is base javascript function, so can be used in any platform where backend is in Javascript
Rohit ParteRohit Parte
I don't know if the question is just too old, but setting window.location to a download url will work, as long as the download mime type is correct (for example a zip archive).
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Maybe just have your javascript open a page that just downloads a file, like when you drag a download link to a new tab:
With the opened window open a download page that auto closes.
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brian waltsebrian waltse
Most Complete and Working (Tested) Code for Downloading Data For FireFox, Chrome and IE Code is Following. Assume that Data is in texarea field, that has id='textarea_area' and filename is name of file where data will be downloaded.
and then just call
For Download Initiating.
Array for setting correct MIME type for download dialog CAN BE following:
Urmas RepinskiUrmas Repinski
To improve Imagine Breaker 's answer, this is supported on FF & IE :
In other words, just use a
La masseLa massedispatchEvent
function instead of click()
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I have had good results with using a FORM tag since it works everywhere and you don't have to create temporarily files on server. The method works like this.
On the client side (page HTML) you create an invisible form like this
Then you add this Javascript code to your button:
The on the server-side you have the following PHP code in
download.php
:You can even create zip files of your data like this:
The best part is it does not leave any residual files on your server since everything is created and destroyed on the fly!
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The answer submitted by hitesh on Dec 30 '13 does in fact work. It just requires a little adjusting:
The PHP file can call itself. In other words, just create a file named saveAs.php, and put this code into it...
amgeramger
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I suggest you use the mousedown event, which is called BEFORE the click event. That way, the browser handles the click event naturally, which avoids any code weirdness:
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Excelent solution from Corbacho, I just adapted to get rid o the var
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Using anchor tag and PHP it can be done, Check this answer
I am checking for file size because if you load pdf from CDN cloudfront, you won`t get the size of document which forces the document to download in 0kb, To avoid this i am checking with this condition
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Firefox and Chrome tested:
This is actually the 'chrome' way solution for firefox (I am not tested it on other browsers, so please leave comments about the compilability)
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I know I'm late for the party, but I'd like to share my solution which is variation of Imagine Breaker's solution above. I tried to use his solution, because his solution seems most simple and easy to me. But like other said, it didn't work for some browsers, so I put some variation on it by using jquery.
Hope this could help someone out there.
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Note: Not supported in all browsers.
I was looking for a way to download a file using jquery without having to set the file url in the href attribute from the beginning.
Xero KaelXero Kael
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I use @rakaloof's solution without JQuery (because you don't need it here). Thank you for the idea! Here is a vanillaJS form-based solution:
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There are so many little things that can happen when trying to download a file. The inconsistency between browsers alone is a nightmare. I ended up using this great little library.https://github.com/rndme/download
Nice thing about it is that its flexible for not only urls but for client side data you want to download.
- text string
- text dataURL
- text blob
- text arrays
- html string
- html blob
- ajax callback
- binary files
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I ended up using the below snippet and it works in most browsers, not tested in IE though.
AbkDownload Jquery Js Files
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