Javascript force download text file

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. Remove this link from the document.

DelftStack is a collective effort contributed by software geeks like you. If you like the article and would like to contribute to DelftStack by writing paid articles, you can check the write for us page. Lukas Liesis Lukas Liesis And click doesn't work for many browsers too, or only for buttons : developer. What browsers? Old default android? I never had a ticket about this not working and this answer is several years old already.

Make a test, show what is not working. Sean Patrick Floyd Sean Patrick Floyd k 60 60 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. It's now possible with the download attribute. At the time of the question, it wasn't available — Sean Patrick Floyd. Not saying you need to change your answer, but it appears at the top and it's accepted, so I'm just letting people know that are too lazy to scroll further :- — mpen.

Deprecations and removals announcement here: developers. No, neither the header, nor any other approach, forces the download. This answer is incorrect. Show 1 more comment.

Daniel Kutik Daniel Kutik 6, 2 2 gold badges 24 24 silver badges 34 34 bronze badges. But even such a header will not force a download, depending on how the user has set the optional locally on his browser.

Darin Dimitrov Darin Dimitrov k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Once the page is open in the client, the HTTP response has, by definition, already been processed. The asker clearly says that he wants to use it with a dialog in stead of opening a new tab, so it isn't exactly what you are replying to? This requires a little intermediate knowledge of the JavaScript to work and in this example a Axios library will be used. Skip to content. Change Language.

Related Articles. Table of Contents. Save Article. Improve Article. Like Article. I look forward to learning more about both createObjectURL and Blob ; those two are the true magic of this technique!

One event that's always been lacking within the document is a signal for when the user is looking at a given tab, or another tab.

When does the user switch off our site to look at something else? When do they come back? I get asked loads of questions every day but I'm always surprised that they're rarely questions about code or even tech -- many of the questions I get are more about non-dev stuff like what my office is like , what software I use, and oftentimes I've taken some time to Aaron Newton made a great request to me last week: why not make my MooTools Documentation Bookmarklet function more like the New York Time's text selection widget.