Html download file link

Show 2 more comments. Paolo Pekka Pekka k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Did you even test it? Dudeson please specify what "won't work" and which version s of IE you are talking about.

It should get the accept mark. Sergiu the answer is seven years old. I can't delete it, and the asker hasn't responded to my request to switch the accept mark Show 9 more comments. Myobis Myobis 1, 14 14 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. But that requires a server side implementation, correct? Lombas yes, only the server can set the http response headers. Is this the full answer?

You also need to send a Content Type header and read the file to force the download. May want to and that to your answer. Full answer here: stackoverflow. Oded Oded k 95 95 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Delan Azabani Delan Azabani Thank you.

That will make all files of that type download only. Fine if that's what you want, but could cause fits if you forget and want another file of that type to display in-browser instead of download. This thread is probably ancient by now, but this works in html5 for my local file.

There's one more subtlety that can help here. Ian Thompson 1 1 silver badge 10 10 bronze badges. Odin Odin 6 6 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Con Con 1 1 silver badge 7 7 bronze badges. The problem with the latter is that it will open in the browser, not be offered for downloading and saving. Won't work; browser will treat it as a relative link to.

Sikander Sikander 2, 9 9 gold badges 43 43 silver badges 87 87 bronze badges. This is terrible. Specify a value for the download attribute, which will be the new filename of the downloaded file "w3logo. We just launched W3Schools videos. Get certified by completing a course today! If you want to report an error, or if you want to make a suggestion, do not hesitate to send us an e-mail:.

Example Specify a value for the download attribute, which will be the new filename of the downloaded file "w3logo.

Report Error. T he tells where the link should start and the indicates where the link ends. E verything between these two will work as a link. T he target of the link is added to the tag using. The download attribute, if present, indicates that the author intends the hyperlink to be used for downloading a resource. The attribute may have a value; the value, if any, specifies the default filename that the author recommends for use in labeling the resource in a local file system.

I would start out by getting your file uploaded to a Cloud Storage account. I would suggest using MediaFire; but there are many other options you could choose. Hyperlinks have been around since the dawn of the Web.

The new attributes are: download , media , and ping. The download attribute is new in HTML5. It supplements the existing href attribute by telling the browser that the resource the href points to should be downloaded directly, instead of visited which could happen with a file that the browser can open, like a PDF.