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Manage your hard drive partitions and improve their performance. TeraCopy Free. The most common file types that are affected by this behavior are PDF files and images. The code below will tell the browser to prompt the user to save the file. This link does not have the download attribute. This link has the download attribute. The click method simulates a mouse-click on an element.

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. Computer Network. Compiler Design. Computer Organization. Discrete Mathematics. Ethical Hacking. Computer Graphics. Software Engineering. Web Technology. Cyber Security. C Programming. Control System.

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The question is explicitly asking to use a button instead of a link — Quentin. Show 9 more comments. Gray k 22 22 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Cfreak Cfreak In when the answer was originally posted it wasn't supported in any major browser. This doesn't necessarily trigger a download.

It simply causes the browser to navigate to file. Whether that results in file. Show 3 more comments. Ani Menon What if i wanna download a xml file? Thanks for your code. I have tested, it can working in IE, Chrome, Firefox.

If you have a file acceptable by the browser like a PDF it will open in new tab instead to show download dialog. You could use window.

Show 1 more comment. Stefanos Chrs Stefanos Chrs 1, 2 2 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 44 44 bronze badges. NicholasKyriakides Kind of reminds me of this gem: image. BryanLarsen You are right, Firefox doesn't allow this without adding the element to body first.

Thank you, updating the answer — Stefanos Chrs. Is there a way that javascript function be triggered once the download finishes? Just trying to show a message once downloads start and remove the message once download completes. This is best solution out here and should be accepted answer. Show 6 more comments. Mark Amery k 65 65 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Matt Ball Matt Ball k 95 95 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

Perfect, thanks. Do you happen to know if most servers will set the Content-Disposition to 'attachment' by default? There is no "most.