HTML Download Link How to HTML Download Link? The only difference is that you have to set the HREF property equal to your download file, rather than specifying a web URL. HTML Source Code: Download PDF. User can Right click or option-click the link and choose 'Save As.'
I have some big size PDF catalogs at my website, and I need to link these as download. When I googled, I found such a thing noted below. It should open the 'Save As...' popup at link click...
But it doesn't work :/ When I link to a file as below, it just links to file and is trying to open the file.
UPDATE (according to answers below):
As I see there is no 100% reliable cross-browser solution for this. Probably the best way is using one of the web services listed below, and giving a download link...
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From an answer to Force a browser to save file as after clicking link:
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GabLeRouxMeta tags are not a reliable way to achieve this result. Generally you shouldn't even do this - it should be left up to the user/user agent to decide what do to with the content you provide. The user can always force their browser to download the file if they wish to.
If you still want to force the browser to download the file, modify the HTTP headers directly. Here's a PHP code example:
Note that this is just an extension to the HTTP protocol; some browsers might ignore it anyway.
peterjwestI had this same issue and found a solution that has worked great so far. You put the following code in your .htaccess file:
It came from Force a File to Download Instead of Showing Up in the Browser.
Peter MortensenI found a very simple solution for Firefox (only works with a relative rather than a direct href): add type='application/octet-stream':
Generally it happens, because some browsers settings or plug-ins directly open PDF in the same window like a simple web page.
The following might help you. I have done it in PHP a few years back. But currently I'm not working on that platform.
Save the above as download.php.
Save this little snippet as a PHP file somewhere on your server and you can use it to make a file download in the browser, rather than display directly. If you want to serve files other than PDF, remove or edit line 5.
You can use it like so:
Add the following link to your HTML file.
Reference from: This blog
Peter MortensenTry adding this line to your .htaccess file.
I hope it'll work as it is browser independent.
Peter MortensenJust put the below code in your .htaccess file:
Or you can also do trick by JavaScript
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I just used this, but I don't know if it works across all browsers.
It works in Firefox:
Peter MortensenA really simple way to achieve this, without using external download sites or modifying headers etc. is to simply create a ZIP file with the PDF inside and link directly to the ZIP file. This will ALWAYS trigger the Save/Open dialog, and it's still easy for people to double-click the PDF windows the program associated with .zip is launched.
BTW great question, I was looking for an answer as well, since most browser-embedded PDF plugins take sooo long to display anything (and will often hang the browser whilst the PDF is loading).
A very easy way to do this, if you need to force download for a single link on your page, is to use the HTML5 download-attribute in the href-link.
See: http://davidwalsh.name/download-attribute
with this you can rename the file that the user will download and at the same time it forces the download.
There has been a debate whether this is good practise or not, but in my case I have an embedded viewer for a pdf file and the viewer does not offer a download link, so i have to provide one separately. Here I want to make sure the user does not get the pdf opened in the web browser, which would be confusing.
This won't necessary open the save as-dialog, but will download the link straight to the preset download destination. And of course if your doing a site for someone else, and need them to write in manually attributes to their links is probably a bad idea, but if there is way to get the attribute into the links, this can be a light solution.
A server-side solution is more compatible, until the 'download' attribute is implemented in all the browsers.
One Python example could be a custom HTTP request handler for a filestore. The links that point to the filestore are generated like this:
Here is the code:
Peter MortensenAfter the file name in the HTML code I add ?forcedownload=1
This has been the simplest way for me to trigger a dialog box to save or download.
ByteHamsterIf you have a plugin within the browser which knows how to open a PDF file it will open directly. Like in case of images and HTML content.
So the alternative approach is not to send your MIME type in the response. In this way the browser will never know which plugin should open it. Hence it will give you a Save/Open dialog box.
Peter MortensenI just had a very similar issue with the added problem that I needed to create download links to files inside a ZIP file.
I first tried to create a temporary file, then provided a link to the temporary file, but I found that some browsers would just display the contents (a CSV Excel file) rather than offering to download. Eventually I found the solution by using a servlet. It works both on Tomcat and GlassFish, and I tried it on Internet Explorer 10 and Chrome.
The servlet takes as input a full path name to the ZIP file, and the name of the file inside the zip that should be downloaded.
Inside my JSP file I have a table displaying all the files inside the zip, with links that say: onclick='download?zip=<%=zip%>&csv=<%=csv%>'
The servlet code is in download.java:
To compile on Tomcat you need the classpath to include tomcatlibservlet-api.jar or on GlassFish: glassfishlibj2ee.jar
But either one will work on both. You also need to set your servlet in web.xml.
This is old post but here is the one my solution in JavaScript what using jQuery library.
You just need to use class force-download inside your <a> tag and will force download automaticaly. You also can add it to parent div and will pickup all links inside it.
Example:
This is great for WordPress and any other systems or custom websites.
Ivijan Stefan StipićIvijan Stefan StipićWith large PDF files the browser hangs.In Mozilla, menu Tools → Options → Applications, then next to the content type Adobe Acrobat document.In the Action drop down, select Always ask.
This did not work for me, so what worked was:
Menu Tools* → Add-ons → Adobe Acrobat (Adobe PDF plugin for Firefox) → DISABLE.Now I am able to download e-books!
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I'm trying to use a php variable to add a href value for a link in an echo statement.
Here's a simplified version of the code I want to use. I know that I can't just add the variable into the echo statement, but I can't seem to find an example anywhere that works.
Any pointers appreciated.
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Try like
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Or even you can try like
Or you can use PHP in HTML like
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Gautam3164Gautam3164you can either use
or
if you use double quotes you can insert the variable into the string and it will be parsed.
Basically like this,
<?php$link = '; // Link goes here!print '<a href='.$link.'>Link</a>';?>
as simple as that: echo '<a href='.$link_address.'>Link</a>';
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If you want to print in the tabular form with, then you can use this:
Php A Href Example
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