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

EDIT 2022: Please see other answers regarding File System API In case anyone is still wondering… I did it like this: <a href=”data:application/xml;charset=utf-8,your code here” download=”filename.html”>Save</a> can’t remember my source but it uses the following techniques\features: html5 download attribute data URI’s Found the reference: http://paxcel.net/blog/savedownload-file-using-html5-javascript-the-download-attribute-2/ EDIT: As you can gather from the comments, this does … Read more

How to set name of file downloaded from browser?

When they click a button to download the file, you can add the HTML5 attribute download where you can set the default filename. That’s what I did, when I created a xlsx file and the browser want to save it as zip file. <a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3102226/path/to/file” download=”renamed.txt”>Download</a> <a href=”downloads/export.xlsx” download=”Data-Export.xlsx”>Download Export</a>

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