Download file jquery

Asked 11 years, 2 months ago. Active 1 month ago. Viewed 1. How is this possible? Improve this question. Mithun Sreedharan Mithun Sreedharan I tried many answers in related questions, and this is the definitive answer. Setting window. Also window content does NOT change. I assume you used the wrong contentType? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Saran 3, 3 3 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 54 54 bronze badges.

Randy the Dev Randy the Dev A webpage cannot open a new tab automatically. Nicely done! Solves the problem well. However, you may want to use: iframe.

Your current implementation will make the iframe invisible, but the iframe will still take up space at bottom of the page causing extra white space. It "semi" works for me. This is part of a larger mobile web app, and the fact that it gets canceled breaks the app because it raises a general web failure.

Any way around this? Nice snippet. However, setting a nonsensical things type is a bit disturbing. How do I force the download without a server? So just an html page with some javascript. Show 5 more comments. John Culviner John Culviner Your modern example here doesn't seem to me to make a great deal of sense. MarkAmery that works too as other answers have indicated. That approach AFAIK doesn't give you feedback on when the download starts, when it completed and if it errored which is handy.

I could add that to the answer for a "fire and forget" option. Also the [download] attribute doesn't allow for a POST or anything exotic either. Your modern example is not quite right. It will "download" whatever the server returns.

For ex, if you have an authentication error, it will return the login page or whatever the server returns and not the "downloaded file" itself.

Imagine Breaker Imagine Breaker 1, 1 1 gold badge 10 10 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. For me this would be perfect but it doesn't not work on Firefox neither. Any idea? As mentioned in caniuse. So if your links points to another domain, it hardly works anywhere for now. For it to work on Firefox, do document. You can also do link. Show 3 more comments. Tomer 1, 13 13 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Chrome downloads, but Firefox just shows the picture.

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