Javascript download file window.location.href

Asked 8 years, 3 months ago. Active 1 year, 4 months ago. Viewed 24k times. Chris Farmer 24k 32 32 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Grammin Grammin 11k 22 22 gold badges 74 74 silver badges bronze badges. You could add an iframe to the DOM for each file in your list and set the iframe's src to the appropriate file url. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. This worked for me, but it's only good for files.

If you do this for 20 files - chrome will download only FF and IE will skip a lot and pop up a bazillion "where to download? So zipping is the way to go if you have many files you want to give the browser. Thanks for the heads up. Chris Young Chris Young 1, 12 12 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Jubair Jubair 2, 2 2 gold badges 27 27 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges.

All the major browsers support all the above methods except the method using the Axios library. Internet Explorer still does not supports the native ES6 promises, and Axios depends heavily on them. Download Algorithm Create a text area to enter the text data. This will help us to replace certain special characters with a combination of escape sequences. Append this created element to the body of the document HTML page. Use element.

Remove the element from the body of the document HTML page. Attach this link to the document and simulate a click using the. This is straightforward, however if there is no anchor element on the page to include the download attribute, you might need to add a few lines of JavaScript to make it happen:. However this download attribute only works for same origin URLs, what if this static file is saved somewhere else once deployed such as AWS s3 bucket?

But an interesting thing I learned is that if the file is saved in S3 bucket, then you can change the property of file to download the file. In a regular HTTP response, the Content-Disposition response header is a header indicating if the content is expected to be displayed inline in the browser, that is, as a Web page or as part of a Web page, or as an attachment, that is downloaded and saved locally.