This works in all browsers (IE11, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Chrome and Chrome Mobile) My documents are in multiple select elements. The browsers seem to have issues when you try to do it too fast... So I used a timeout.
<select class="document">
<option val="word.docx">some word document</option>
</select>
//user clicks a download button to download all selected documents
$('#downloadDocumentsButton').click(function () {
var interval = 1000;
//select elements have class name of "document"
$('.document').each(function (index, element) {
var doc = $(element).val();
if (doc) {
setTimeout(function () {
window.location = doc;
}, interval * (index + 1));
}
});
});
This solution uses promises:
function downloadDocs(docs) {
docs[0].then(function (result) {
if (result.web) {
window.open(result.doc);
}
else {
window.location = result.doc;
}
if (docs.length > 1) {
setTimeout(function () { return downloadDocs(docs.slice(1)); }, 2000);
}
});
}
$('#downloadDocumentsButton').click(function () {
var files = [];
$('.document').each(function (index, element) {
var doc = $(element).val();
var ext = doc.split('.')[doc.split('.').length - 1];
if (doc && $.inArray(ext, docTypes) > -1) {
files.unshift(Promise.resolve({ doc: doc, web: false }));
}
else if (doc && ($.inArray(ext, webTypes) > -1 || ext.includes('?'))) {
files.push(Promise.resolve({ doc: doc, web: true }));
}
});
downloadDocs(files);
});