I’m in the process of building a website and I want to make a link where people can download a file called test.exe. I’ve tried things like this:
<a href=“test.exe” download></a>
But none of them download the file. It just sends me to a page that doesn’t exist. What’s the correct way to write it?
(Note: test.exe is located on my desktop)
Try this, it worked on my website for a PDF file. I'm not sure why it shouldn't with any other file extension.
<form method="get" action="test.exe">
<button type="submit">Download</button>
</form>
Note that "test.exe" needs to be in the same directory as your page.html or the path needs to be defined i.e. "downloads/test.exe".
Can you try this?
Download Link
I would recommend moving the EXE file to the same folder where you have your .html file stored.
Then you can just use:
<html>
<body>
Download my exe file
</body>
</html>
Related
As I have searched, making a download link is like
<a href="image_url.png" download>download</a>
But the image must be in project directory. How to download from another server?
For example if I want to download django logo the code is supposed to be:
<a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/s/img/logo-django.42234b631760.svg" download>download</a>
but that's not working (it opens and shows the image in the current tab instead of downloading), but any file in my own server is being downloaded easily. What is the best way to do that? tnx
You simply need to put name of the file (how it should be saved) in download. Like this:
download
Edit:
Actually I was wrong. You can find the answer here. If you want to download SVG in regular way, like any other file, you need to use JavaScript, not just plain HTML tags. Or you can download it as PNG, but as I assume: that's not the point.
Sorry for mistake.
you put link in href on anchor tag:
download
here's what I have so far but it downloads aff.php and then stops because there is no file in my FTP.
<button>Download</button>
One thing you could do, is remove the first href (href="https://www.abcgameservers.com/aff.php?aff=47") and replace it with onclick="window.open('https://www.abcgameservers.com/aff.php?aff=47')". That way you could have it open the page and download the file.
Maybe its stupid question, but I don't know to find answer anywhere.
When I navigate to my file for example: mysite.com/folder/sometextfile.txt
it automatically opens the file and shows content in browser.
What do I have to do if I don't want to show content in browser, but have options to open file or download it?
I have tried
<form method="post" action="../folder/sometextfile.txt">
<button type="submit">Download!</button>
</form>
and
Textfile
But it still shows the content of file.
I dont want to something special, just the default way which it is done in most cases.
That depends on the server side settings, by default the web server knows some common file extensions like .txt, .html etc. It is called MIME Types. If you remove the txt extension form the server, all the txt files will be downloaded automatically.
http://webdesign.about.com/od/multimedia/a/mime-types-by-file-extension.htm
Or you can simply zip it and upload :P
I'm using HTML web and i want, that users could download a file like .vbs (skype bot) and then i use code like this:
<a href='skypebot.vbs' target='_blank'>download</a>
I get just only that file text. How can i make it download link not uploading it to other site like zippyshare?
How can i make it download link not uploading it to other site like
zippyshare?
You can use a data link. Put the contents of your file (encoded with encodeURI() ) in the link itself:
<a href='data:application/octet-stream,encodeURI(hereContentsGoes)' target='_blank'>download</a>
The file is probably being recognized as a vbs type by your browser, and trying to display it.
Easiest solution is to zip or tar the file and have that be the downloadable file.
<a href='skypebot.zip' target='_blank'>download</a>
I have an Excel Spreadsheet (.xls) which i want the users to be able to download it from my webpage.
Maybe a 'download' button on the page and when users click on it, the file will be downloaded.
May i know how can this be done?
Code snippets and references will be appreciated.
You can use simple html links:
link:
Download
button:
<form>
<input type="button" value="Download" onClick="window.location.href='/path/to/excel/file.xls'">
</form>
How about just referring to the file through an anchor?
Download
I think this should be fine too:
Download
download: name of file to be downloaded as.