Download pdf with javascript

Active Oldest Votes. Thats Great Its Working. Thanks a lot. Can we specify the path where the file is to be downloaded?? EhsaanIsrar we cannot. Browsers normally use the user settings for downloaded files. EhsaanIsrar you can mark the answer as accepted though, can you not? I'm not sure what do you mean by 'automatically in xhtml'. The question was about javascript which should work just fine.

You can add a script tag at the end of the body etc — minj. Show 3 more comments. It is also possible to open the pdf link in a new window and let the browser handle the rest: window. Andreas Andreas 9 9 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. URL window. Suresh Suthar Suresh Suthar 7 7 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Alpesh Panchal Alpesh Panchal 1, 10 10 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges.

Please Elaborate — Ehsaan Israr. Well, full path means if you enter direct url to pdf into browser address bar, you can access it. Show 2 more comments. Home Categories. Need Help? Our Support Team is here to help. Ask Question. JavaScript PDF. Location of Files. The PDF file are stored in a folder named Files inside the project directory.

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Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I was wondering how to make a PDF file link downloadable instead of opening them in the browser?

How is this done in html? I'd assume it's done via javascript or something. There is now the HTML 5 download attribute that can handle this.

I agree, and think Sarim's answer is good it probably should be the chosen answer if the OP ever returns. While the download attribute has gained support, it's still spotty:.

This goes for ASP. I am sure you can find similar solutions in all other server side languages. However there's no javascript solution to the best of my knowledge. When you want to direct download any image or pdf file from browser instead on opening it in new tab then in javascript you should set value to download attribute of create dynamic link. Appending child and removing child is useful for Firefox, Internet explorer browser only.

On chrome it will work without appending and removing child. You can use download. If the file is in an external URL, you must make an Ajax request, but if it is not, then you can use the function:. The solution that worked best for me was the one written up by Nick on his blog. The basic idea of his solution is to use the Apache servers header mod and edit the. While this doesn't actually involve editing HTML as per the original question it doesn't require any programming per se.

The first reason I preferred Nick's approach is because it allowed me to set it on a per folder basis so PDF's in one folder could still be opened in the browser while allowing others the ones we would like users to edit and then re-upload to be forced as downloads. The second reason was because time is a consideration. Writing a PHP file handler to force the content disposition in the header will also take less time than an API, but still longer than Nick's approach. If you know how to turn on an Apache mod and edit the.

It requires Linux hosting not Windows. This may not be appropriate approach for all uses as it requires high level server access to configure.

As such, if you have said access it's probably because you already know how to do those two things. If not, check Nick's blog for more instructions. As the html5 way my previous answer is not available in all browsers, heres another slightly hack way. Now set location. This will cause the browser to download the file. Unfortunately you can't set file name or extension this way. Fiddling with the media-type could yield something.

I needed to do this for files created with dynamic names in a particular folder and served by IIS. If you are using HTML5 and i guess now a days everyone uses that , there is an attribute called download. I've had some issues with the suggested solution that creates an a DOM element, and sets the download attribute. It still displayed a popup warning in some browsers perhaps they got a little stricter by Adding the pdf mime type to the href attribute solved the browser popup warning, but it messed up the file the downloaded file got damaged and couldn't be opened.