Pdf download anchor opening instead of downloading

Show 5 more comments. It uses the custom filename specified on the view side. Christophe Roussy Christophe Roussy Akshay Akshay 2, 3 3 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 70 70 bronze badges. If you have control over the server code you should use 'attachement' as this will allow to use the same filename generation code.

If you have no control over the server this is a good solution. This is a brilliant solution to the problem however, as always, IE is holding us back from using it: caniuse. Important to note that this does not work across domains e. If downloading from one domain, the download attribute will not work if content is stored on a different domain.

CORS may allow that content to pass through haven't tested. Yes figured! Show 1 more comment. This is for ASP. FilePath, FileMode. Open, FileAccess. Leon van Wyk Leon van Wyk 8 8 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. Oops, there were typing errors in my previous post. Andrew Barber What previous post? If you have Apache add this to the. Alexander Alexander 43 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. Kindly suggest me. Thanks in advance.

That does the opposite to what is asked for — Quentin. Nervous Laughter By default , when you open a pdf file in firefox, it will provide you with a popup to either save the pdf file or to open it directly and there is also a check box which says do this action automatically from now on and guess who selected it.

Ashfaq nisar Ashfaq nisar 6 6 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Nick Kongk. Open downloads. Cleb Hello Everyone,. Client Expectation :. This particular client was looking for providing information to the users upfront. It is annoying when user click on PDF and it gets download and then user need to go to. But the question is how browser decide whether to download the file or whether need to.

Basically, this happens because the website tells the browser to do it. Occasionally, it's. Other times, it's because it's a default option for whatever software they're using. Anthony E Anthony E I want something simple to make it work if possible directly from the anchor tag — Learning. For best results, you should really change the content-disposition server-side. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook.

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