Jquery hit the browser download button

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. Show 2 more comments. But before you tackle the big projects, we suggest you start by learning the basics. Now at it's lowest price ever! Approach 2: Using a custom javascript function firstly made a textarea where all the text input will be issued. The click method simulates a mouse-click on an element.

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