Firefox Download Save As Prompt

Posted : admin On 06.12.2019

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How can I make a browser display a 'save as dialog' so the user can save the content of a string to a file on his system?

For example:

Resulting in something like this:

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4 Answers

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I did it like this:

<a href='data:application/xml;charset=utf-8,your code here' download='filename.html'>Save</a>

cant remember my source but it uses the following techniquesfeatures:

Command Prompt Save To File

html5 download attribute
data uri's

Found the reference:

EDIT:As you can gather from the comments this does NOT work in

Internet Explorer (works in Edge v13 though)
Safari
iOS Safari
Opera Mini
Android Browser (4.3 and lower)

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There is a javascript library for this, see FileSaver.js on Github

However the saveAs() function won't send pure string to the browser, you need to convert it to blob:

and then call saveAs on the blob, as like:

Of course remember to include the above-mentioned javascript library on your webpage using <script src=FileSaver.js>

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This is possible using this cross browser javascript implementation of the HTML5 saveAs function: https://github.com/koffsyrup/FileSaver.js

If all you want to do is save text then the above script works in all browsers(including all versions of IE), using nothing but JS.

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