How can I create download link in HTML

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I have a basic idea of HTML  I want to create the download link in my sample website  but I don t have idea of how to create it  How do I make a link to download a file rather than visit it

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The download attribute is new for the  lt a gt  tag in HTML5    lt a href  http   www odin com form pdf  download gt Download Form lt  a gt  or   lt a href  http   www odin com form pdf  download  Form  gt Download Form lt  a gt   I prefer the first one it is preferable in respect to any extension

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This thread is probably ancient by now  but this works in html5 for my local file   For pdfs    lt p gt  lt a href  file            example pdf  download target   blank  gt test pdf lt  a gt  lt  p gt   This should open the pdf in a new windows and allow you to download it  in firefox at least    For any other file  just make it the filename  For images and music  you d want to store them in the same directory as your site though  So it d be like    lt p gt  lt a href  images logo2 png  download gt test pdf lt  a gt  lt  p gt

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Like this   lt a href  www yoursite com theThingYouWantToDownload  gt Link name lt  a gt    So a file name jpg on a site example com would look like this   lt a href  www example com name jpg  gt Image lt  a gt

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In addition  or in replacement  to the HTML5 s  lt a download attribute already mentioned  the browser s download to disk behavior can also be triggered by the following http response header   Content-Disposition  attachment  filename ProposedFileName txt    This was the way to do before HTML5  and still works with browsers supporting HTML5

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There s one more subtlety that can help here    I want to have links that both allow in-browser playing and display as well as one for purely downloading  The new download attribute is fine  but doesn t work all the time because the browser s compulsion to play the or display the file is still very strong    BUT   this is based on examining the extension on the URL s filename You don t want to fiddle with the server s extension mapping because you want to deliver the same file two different ways  So for the download  you can fool it by softlinking the file to a name that is opaque to this extension mapping  pointing to it  and then using download s rename feature to fix the name     x000D   x000D   lt a target   blank  download  realname mp3  href  realname UNKNOWN  gt Download it lt  a gt  x000D   lt a target   blank  href  realname mp3  gt Play it lt  a gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    I was hoping just throwing a dummy query on the end or otherwise obfuscating the extension would work  but sadly  it doesn t

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To link to the file  do the same as any other page link    lt a href       gt link text lt  a gt    To force things to download even if they have an embedded plugin  Windows   QuickTime   ugh   you can use this in your htaccess   apache2 conf   AddType application octet-stream EXTENSION

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This answer is outdated  We now have the download attribute   see also this link to MDN    If by  the download link  you mean a link to a file to download  use     lt a href  http   example com files myfile pdf  target   blank  gt Download lt  a gt    the target  blank will make a new browser window appear before the download starts  That window will usually be closed when the browser discovers that the resource is a file download   Note that file types known to the browser  e g  JPG or GIF images  will usually be opened within the browser   You can try sending the right headers to force a download like outlined e g  here   server side scripting or access to the server settings is required for that

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i know i am late  but this is what i got after  1 hour of  search     lt  php         file    file pdf        if    file            die  file not found      Or do something        else          if isset   GET  file                   Set headers         header  Cache-Control  public            header  Content-Description  File Transfer            header  Content-Disposition  attachment  filename  file            header  Content-Type  application zip            header  Content-Transfer-Encoding  binary               Read the file from disk         readfile  file                  gt    and for downloadable link i did this    lt a href  index php file file pdf  gt Download PDF lt  a gt

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A download link would be a link to the resource you want to download  It is constructed in the same way that any other link would be    lt a href  path to resource name of file  gt Link lt  a gt    lt a href  files installer exe  gt Link to installer lt  a gt

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You can download in the various way you can follow my way  Though files may not download due to  allow-popups  permission is not set but in your environment  this will work perfectly    x000D   x000D   lt div className  col-6  gt  x000D                       lt a  download href  https   www w3schools com images myw3schoolsimage jpg   gt Test Download  lt  a gt  x000D                   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    another one this one will also fail due to  X-Frame-Options  to  sameorigin     x000D   x000D   lt a href  https   www w3schools com images myw3schoolsimage jpg  download gt  x000D     lt img src  https   www w3schools com images myw3schoolsimage jpg  alt  W3Schools  width  104  height  142  gt  x000D   lt  a gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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In modern browsers that support HTML5  the following is possible    lt a href  link to your download file  download gt Download link lt  a gt    You also can use this    lt a href  link to your download file  download  filename  gt Download link lt  a gt    This will allow you to change the name of the file actually being downloaded

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