How to automatically download file from click

The Media type , also called the MIME type or Content type , as configured by the web server, will determine what action Firefox will take. When you tell Firefox to open or save the file and also check the option to "Do this automatically for files like this from now on" see below , a new Content Type and Action entry for that type of file will appear in the Applications section of the General panel in Firefox Options Preferences Settings.

You can change what action Firefox takes for defined content types. This will not affect media embedded in a web page - only links to the files themselves. In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click Firefox and select Preferences. Click the menu button and select Options Preferences. Click the menu button and select Settings. When you click on a link and Firefox doesn't have a content type and download action set up for that type of file, Firefox will ask you how to handle the file:.

If you are having problems with how Firefox is handling file downloads that you can't resolve, or if you just want to start fresh, you can restore the default content types and actions by manually deleting the file that stores these settings.

Starwarswii Starwarswii 1, 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. For this to work in Firefox, the resource has to be on the same domain as the document. Setting CORS headers does not help. Don't ever do this — Wannes. John Weisz This does not work, if your file, for example, is an image, since it would just be opened in the browser.

Another issue occurs which is if the file is missing it navigates the entire page to a page — Hugheth. It works perfectly in for every file , and it is the simplest solution of all. Hello I just include the word 'download' and works well. Juca Duarte Juca Duarte 91 6 6 bronze badges. David Willhite David Willhite 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. Change it to your own relative path. Explanation I noticed there were comments under a lot of the answers that said the browser would just try to open the file itself rather than downloading it depending on the file type.

However, Button 1 would download the file for file types that it couldn't open itself for example,. Button 2 downloaded the text file.

However, Button 2 only downloaded the file if the path was relative. When I changed the path to an absolute path, then the browser opened it in a new tab. I tested this on Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. Suragch Suragch k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Like other solutions here that use a default form action, this doesn't necessarily trigger a download.

It simply causes the browser to navigate to the target URL. Whether that results in the file at that URL being downloaded or being shown as a page in the browser depends upon the headers returned by the server when it serves the file and on what file types the browser is capable of rendering.

Ronaldo Ronaldo 79 2 2 bronze badges. For Chrome it is a great solution — Hayk Aramyan. Doesn't work in Safari either: W3 Schools — Alex. Not working in the MS browsers is a rather big problem and Chrome is not always going to be the answer.

Not legal HTML; validator. Gleb Dolzikov Gleb Dolzikov 6 6 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. I had a button that would download an in-memory string as a file. This worked, no problems. Simplest solution ever. BananaAcid 2, 31 31 silver badges 34 34 bronze badges. Bellash Bellash 6, 4 4 gold badges 42 42 silver badges 79 79 bronze badges. For me ading button instead of anchor text works really well. Brana Brana 1, 3 3 gold badges 16 16 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges.

This only works because your browser doesn't support. Your HTML is invalid. My code above will work - just copy and paste into your HTML document. But if you insist on using php you will need the filename and header , or if no filename, you will need a function such as glob — The One and Only ChemistryBlob. I hope this will works all the browsers. You can also set the auto download timing. The click answer did not work for me.

But this answer did. I simplified it to window. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Asked 5 years, 7 months ago. Active 8 months ago. Viewed 27k times. Zinger Zinger 2 2 gold badges 4 4 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. So you mean there would not be anything else on your website and just when user clicks the url of your website, the file should get downloaded?

Sorry - Answered but didn't realise you already tried the download attribute. Still, this is best done server side, using a 'Content-disposition: attachment' header when serving the file — Alfie. Possible duplicate of Download a file using Javascript — Thriggle. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Daniel Williams Daniel Williams 2, 4 4 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges. ZettaCircl ZettaCircl 8 8 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges.