Jquery download string as file

Active 5 months ago. Viewed k times. How can I prompt a download for a user when they click a link. Can this be done with jQuery, if so, how?

Or should this be done with PHP or something instead? RedBlueThing Dodinas Dodinas 6, 22 22 gold badges 73 73 silver badges bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Thanks, this is what I was looking for. I usually use "preventDefault", just left it out above because I was being lazy. Works great, but get some MIME type errors. Curious if there are any ways to get past them?

Did you solve MIME type warning? Rob Rob 2, 13 13 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Good to know about the 'robots. Thank you. Rob, If you need the URLs to be "private", robots. Johny T Koshy 2, 1 1 gold badge 20 20 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges. Kobi Kobi k 41 41 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

Here is another aricle of Google Help for Webmasers which helps me a lot to understand the "nofollow" or "me" rel. MacAnthony MacAnthony 4, 2 2 gold badges 20 20 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. EL missaoui habib EL missaoui habib 1, 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges.

Table of Contents. Save Article. Improve Article. Like Article. Download File Using. Download this file. For Downloading, Click. Recommended Articles. Article Contributed By :. Easy Normal Medium Hard Expert. The download attribute works only where href is set, as for with the a tag or the area tag. It indicates that the target will be downloaded when a user clicks on the hyperlink. This attribute needs href to be set in order to work. At a click, a text file Download needs to be initiated.

So, we need to call the function Download when the button above is clicked!