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April 24, 2014 17:46
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Save a text file locally with a filename, by triggering a download in JavaScript
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/* | |
* Save a text file locally with a filename by triggering a download | |
*/ | |
var text = "hello world", | |
blob = new Blob([text], { type: 'text/plain' }), | |
anchor = document.createElement('a'); | |
anchor.download = "hello.txt"; | |
anchor.href = (window.webkitURL || window.URL).createObjectURL(blob); | |
anchor.dataset.downloadurl = ['text/plain', anchor.download, anchor.href].join(':'); | |
anchor.click(); |
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Also, browsers might block subsequent downloads because of security.
A solution is to probably stick with manually downloading through the element appended somewhere.