Instead of creating an additional text file and provide a link to it, can one embed some texts into an HTML file and provide a link to download it? The solution should work for a static website.
You should be able to base64 encode the file in the link, but you may want to do some cross-browser testing.
See Create a file in memory for user to download, not through server
If I understand correctly, you have a static website and you want to be able to create a link to a HTML page that should be downloaded instead of "viewed" in the browser.
The only way I can think of to solve this is to use the HTML 5 download attribute, like this:
Download
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I have a pdf document, whose path i have hardcoded into my webpage.
I also have a download link, clicking which the user can download the file.
<a href="Path\to\file" download>Click</a> (Works in HTML5)
However instead of having to carry both the webpage code and file separately, is it possible to incorporate the file data into the webpage itself and form a downloadable file whenever the user clicks on the link?
You can try to base64 encode that file and add it as link url:
DOWNLOAD
But adding file source to HTML is worst thing you can do. Why you need that? Your HTML will be loaded very slowly. CTRL + U and console debugging will be extra slow.
Does anyone know any site that i can save my pdf file and view it?
I want to do is get the URL of the view page of my pdf so i can embed it in my Joomla.
The reason I'm doing this cause i got a specific pdf file that wont show in my Joomla article even though i used a pdf plugin already. The only solution i have is get the saved pdf file URL on that site and use it t embed it in my Joomla article.
so instead of saving the pdf to my joomla
{pdf=http://www.example.org/images/ADS/ads.pdf|820|820}
I'l' use the URL of that website to view my pdf in my Joomla article.
It's better if you can use joomla extention something like this to manage and view PDF
Or else use something like mediafire mediafire to upload your pdf file.
I have used this in the past:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/directory-a-documentation/downloads/3115
It works perfectly.
In the article edditing, it adds an attach button.
It worked like a charm.
Do not forget to set the file as public when you upload it.
Furthermore, enable the installed plugin.
I'm creating a button which will download an original file in a PDF format. I already have a zoom button if they want to read the PDF via the browser. But I want to offer the possibility to the user to download the file if he prefers, obviously the downloadable file will have a higher quality.
I've tried some basic coding but the problem is that the PDF is opened in the browser. I'm not using any CMS and won't in a future, so the photos are uploaded simply via html code and by placing the picture in the correct file, so no database is present. This is the code I'm using in this moment:
<img class="icons_infobox" src="./_img/prensa/icon_download.png" alt="Download original file" />
This website needs to be cross-browser compatible so I also will ask the answer to be browser friendly.
Thank you very much!
Hello curious people!!!
After gathering and investigating what could be done I've found some answer. I will give as an answer only two options:
100% sure it downloads but not so nice for the user
-Only sure way is converting the downloadable files into .zip. Yes its not too handy/elegant but that is for sure the way the browser will be obliged to download this file. ZIP format files are always downloaded.
Depends of the users browser preferences
-Yes, you cannot be completely sure but its a very close approach. You will need to create a .htaccess file in the folder where you have your PDF for download. You would need to create this file and place it in with the following code:
SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.pdf$" requested_pdf=pdf
Header add Content-Disposition "attachment" env=requested_pdf
I hope this helps somebody. In my web it did work perfectly. It divers between browsers but it works... You just need to know that there will be a porcentage that will see it displayed in the browser and not downloaded.
Greeeeetings,
Dani
I want to use a web browser to present some multimedia information with locally stored HTML files. The problem is that it just presents the static content without any HTML elements, and also doesn't show the images. The sample code is:
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(TitleContainer.OpenStream("pathString"));
webBrowser.NavigateToString(reader.ReadToEnd());
The best way to do this is to copy your html file and images to the same directory in Isolated Storage (see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff431811(v=vs.92).aspx). Then, you call
webBrowser1.Navigate(new Uri("<Location_of_html_file_in_isolatedStorage>", UriKind.Relative)).
If the images and the html file are in the same directory in isolatedStorage, relative links to your images in this format:
<img src="../YourImage.jpg"/>
Will work correctly.
I don't suppose the WebBrowser control could get access to any images that might be stored in isolated storage, so all the content you want displayed - you would probably need to somehow embed it in a single html, which would probably require some js code (I am not a js/html expert), which needs to be enabled in the control (IsScriptEnabled if I remember correctly). Otherwise - it might be better to convert your HTML to XAML or just otherwise parse it and display it by code.
I teach GUI and use web pages rather than PP.
I am starting to add HTML5 and CSS instruction to the course.
for a file style_by_kind.html
CSS example style_by_kind.html
when student clicks on the link, obviously, runs the file and displays.
the students can use "save as" in their browser to get a copy for themselves.
I want to display the source as text so I can lecture about the html CSS code.
The link runs the code.
Physically including the file runs the html code.
does not applicable, output only
does not display, comment
Because of continuous updates, it is undesirable to copy the
file with another file type extension, and impossible to "quote" out the html.
Any easy syntax to put in the link or around a physically included copy,
so the student just sees plain text, would be greatly appreciated.
I would suggest changing the extension of the html file to txt.
So when u browse to the txt file, it will still get displayed in the browser with the exact same coding.
Depending on how the files are served up, you might be able to set a ContentType header as text/plain, but I suspect most browsers will still sniff the MIMETYPE of the file and render it as html.
Using the <pre> tag as #hamlin11 suggests is a good idea.
Use <plaintext></plaintext> tags
For example, "This is a lesson on bold tags: <plaintext><b>Bold Text</b></plaintext> will display as <b>Bold Text</b>"