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.
Related
I want to add a button to my website, which you click, and it then downloads a .eml file .
How would I do this?
Assuming you already have a .eml file present in your site's files, what you would do is add an href link around the button tags. So, something like this:
<a href="file.eml" download>
<button>Download My EML File</button>
</a>
Just point the href to the eml file in question. This method worked for me with word documents so it should theoretically work here unless eml files work in a fundamentally different way to all other kinds of files.
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>
I want users to be able to download an image from my website by clicking a download button
<a href="../assets/assets/styleguide/Consult.jpg" download>
<button class="btn draw-border">Download</button>
</a>
The filepath is correct, and the download is triggered as I get the usual download popup. Instead of giving the option to download as a .jpg, it asks if I want to download 'Consult.jpg' which is in the .html file type, despite having the .jpg extension.
Anyone know why this is happening, or better yet, how to fix it?
Thanks,
Will
Try again by putting the link inside the button tag and give the download attribute the desired name
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
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