I'm trying to access a document template (.dot) that's linked from a company portal, using chrome. When I click on the link, the browser shows me a bunch of garbage. Is there a setting to force chrome to download this type of file and open it in word?
Example of garbage:
For HTML5:
<a href='file.dot' download>Click here to download</a>
'Download' attribute documentation can be read at:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_download.asp
Supported since chrome 14.0.
EDIT: However this is controlled by the site. As for client-side settings, i think only changing the .DOT extension to match Word files in Windows, and perhaps even that won't work if chrome uses its own list.
In any case, you can right-click and "Save file as...", but yes, it's annoying.
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I have an hyperlink to a pdf form that can not be opened by the browser's pdf viewer. If clicked, the browser tries to show it but I get the error message like "it is necessary Acrobat Reader 8.x" etc. Is there a way to force an hyperlink to such pdf form file to only allow its downloading? In this way, the user could open it with his local Adobe Reader.
Let’s say you have a PDF that you want to let people download. The file will be like this:
Download Receipt
In most browsers, clicking on the link will open the file directly in the browser.
But, if you add the download attribute to the link, it will tell the browser to download the file instead.
<a href="/path/to/your/receipt.pdf" download>Download Receipt</a>
The download attribute works in all modern browsers, including MS Edge, but not Internet Explorer.
In the latest versions of Chrome, you cannot download cross-origin files (they have to be hosted on the same domain).
To make the hyperlink to download the pdf file when clicked, you should use download property inside the anchor tag. For example you can see the code below:
Download the pdf file
You can also give your own name to the downloadable pdf file in the download property that I provided as 'Document' in the code above.
Yes, it is possible. First download the file and then you'll see a link when it downloaded(it disappears quite quickly) just copy it and use:
hyperlink
When using the Microsoft Edge browser, by default when you open a PDF it will open the PDF in a new tab using the built-in PDF viewer. To avoid this, you can adjust the browser's settings: Toggle on the "Always open PDF files externally" option. This works great. However, it presents a separate issue. Our internal applications use embedded PDFs in iframes. When the external toggle is set to on, these PDFs will not show in the iframes. This doesn't happen in Chrome. Has anyone else experienced this and know a work around?
I've tried removing the type="application/pdf" from the iframe tag to no avail. I can't find anything else online.
It looks like an expected result because you have enabled the option Always open PDF files externally.
So MS Edge browser is giving you an option to download the PDF file and open it using the desired app.
You said this doesn't happen in Chrome browser.
If you enabled the Download PDF files instead of automatically opening them in Chrome option then you will notice the same result in the Chrome browser.
Output in the Chrome browser:
If you click on the Open button then it will download the PDF file.
I did not get any solution or a workaround for this issue.
If you think that there should be an option to load the file in an iframe if Always open PDF files externally option is enabled then I suggest you click on the Send Feedback button in the MS Edge browser and try to provide your feedback about it to the Microsoft.
I posted feedback suggesting that an exclusion/inclusion list be in included but the simplest way would be to treat the frame as part of the session. But this is not Microsoft it is the Chrome projects issue.
I made a button for a PDF download that is working well in Chrome but it doesn´t open in Mozilla.
This is the code I used:
<a target="_blank" href="http://gerster.com/docs/posamenten_neuheiten_2014_2.pdf">Jetzt PDF-Katalog herunterladen</a>
What could be wrong?
Note: No error is showing up.
Q Using window.open or "target=" such as blank it doesn´t open in ### Browser
What could be wrong?
It is up to each user to download or permit binary.PDF running in a browser viewport after download, this is especially true after download fron any non trusted site.
OOB many browsers assume they can sandbox the PDF download and then allow as default action review of the PDF file. Chromeium based browsers like Edge may be more inclined to use that before the user improves their security.
So the 1st task for a user should be to switch off Edge auto viewing of PDFs and switch to a more secure setting.
In that case Edge / Chrome and other browsers will NOT auto run the downloaded PDF but ask the user if they wish to View after Download or simply Download.
One of the possible values of that attribute is _blank, which tells the browser to open a new window (or tab, if that’s the user’s preference) when that link is clicked.
This used to be “invalid” in HTML
see A Bad Reason: The link is to a PDF
If you are going to do it, not only do you need the target attribute for the functionality, you need to rel attribute for security.
So do not open yourserver to security issues blacklist or pop-up blocking see https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/
Don’t use target=_blank (or any other target that opens a new navigation context), especially for links in user-generated content, unless you have a good reason
When clicking a PDF link in Firefox and Chrome, the file will sometimes be opened for in-browser viewing and sometimes prompt a "Save as" dialog.
If I wanted to force the link to always prompt a download I could use the download HTML5 attribute.
However, I want to do the opposite. I.e., force the links to always be viewed in the browser.
Sort of an inverse download attribute. Is there such a thing? :)
I'd prefer to not modify response headers when serving PDF documents - I want to be able to specify in markup what the browser behavior should be.
Thanks!
You can achieve that by setting the appropriate header (for instance, in case of PDF, the header will be Content-type: application/pdf;
With this header, the browser will know the mime-type of the file and display it if it is compatible with it.
Here you can see the headers for a PDF.
As a hint, what I like to do is to use some sort of controller (in case you are using a backend language) that handles the download. Hence, to download myNewProject.pdf I do
<a href='download.php?file=myNewProject.pdf&viewInBrowser=1'>Download!</a>
Then I can set the appropriate headers depending on the file type, or if I want to force download or view it in the browser...
I'm using Firefox in XP. I went to the OPTIONS under Tools and found Portable Document Format. Click on it and it will allow you to change the way PDF files are handled.
open the file in a Microsoft Word and save as html.
I'm testing a locally run web app and am trying to use anchor tags to link to log file output on my C: drive. The href value that's generated for the anchor is in the standard URI format "file:///C:/outbox/myLog.txt". But, when I try to click the anchor, the link doesn't go anywhere, I have to right-click and copy the link into the address bar or to a new tab. I'm not sure why copying the link works whereas the link itself isn't clickable. Any help is appreciated.
Is this the case on different browsers? What is your browser / OS? We've seen this as a fault on Windows XP on both IE and Firefox browsers and may be nothing to do with your code
From my understanding, you can't link to file:/// from an HTML doc for security reasons. You might want to try this chrome extension.