Photo by Mandi Cai. There might be a few reasons you would want to do this kind of trickery, but for me, I was generating a PDF on the server based on the contents of te POST request, and then returning that PDF to the client.
The desired experience for the user is just a simple 'Download' button, so even though an asset is being dynamically generated, we want to give the illusion that they're just downloading. 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. As of this post, all major desktop browsers excluding Microsoft IE support the download attribute.
It is likely that people who use these browsers would likely rather view the document rather than saving it to their phone. The site I'm having the issue with requires a login.
It's a site I've been downloading pdf's for quite a while, which has not had a problem in the past. But I can't recall what has changed that might have trigger this issue, if in fact it's an issue on my end.
Feb 27, AM. The problem seems to be with brokerage and bank sites. On both sites I have opened PDFs in a new tab. Mar 2, AM. Mar 2, AM in response to notcloudy In response to notcloudy. In Safari, they look like other PDFs. So Safari thinks they are. The site that I'm getting them from, states that they are. This used to work in Safari, from the exact same sites I'm now having the issue with. I can Export as PDF It does, at least if you actually apprnf the iframe to document. This doesn't seem to be working in Chrome right now, although it used to work.
I wonder if it kind of intermittently stops working in different versions of Chrome. Works in Chrome as of Version Does not work with images in Firefox v It just renders the image in the iframe. This will fail silently if the file is of a type the browser knows how to render itself, though unless the server returns a Content-Disposition header indicating the file should be downloaded.
The question is explicitly asking how to do this with a button instead of a link. Delconis Delconis 2 2 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. This at least the first implementation doesn't necessarily trigger a download. You can hide the download link and make the button click it. Starwarswii Starwarswii 1, 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. For this to work in Firefox, the resource has to be on the same domain as the document.
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.
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. Example: Hey geek! The constant emerging technologies in the world of web development always keeps the excitement for this subject through the roof.
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