Jquery download file on click

In conjunction with jQuery UI a developer can easily show a modal telling the user that a file download is occurring, disband the modal after the download starts or even inform the user in a friendly manner that an error has occurred. See the Demo for an example of this. Hope this helps someone! Here is a simple use case demo using the plugin source with promises.

The demo page includes many other, 'better UX' examples as well. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 12 years, 3 months ago. Active 5 months ago. Viewed k times. How can I prompt a download for a user when they click a link. Can this be done with jQuery, if so, how? Or should this be done with PHP or something instead? Improve this question. RedBlueThing Dodinas Dodinas 6, 22 22 gold badges 73 73 silver badges bronze badges. Add a comment.

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Thanks, this is what I was looking for. I usually use "preventDefault", just left it out above because I was being lazy. Works great, but get some MIME type errors. Curious if there are any ways to get past them? Did you solve MIME type warning? Rob Rob 2, 13 13 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges.

Good to know about the 'robots. Thank you. Rob, If you need the URLs to be "private", robots. Skip to content. Change Language. Related Articles. Table of Contents. Save Article. Improve Article. Like Article. Download File Using. Download this file. For Downloading, Click.

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