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This is best solution out here and should be accepted answer. Show 6 more comments. Mark Amery k 65 65 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Matt Ball Matt Ball k 95 95 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

Perfect, thanks. Do you happen to know if most servers will set the Content-Disposition to 'attachment' by default? There is no "most. Don't rely on it being set. This issue has been driving me ballistic, and this was the only option that worked and is supported by IE. No jquery. This doest work if you're trying to download an image, it would open the image in the browser — Dheeraj. Danubian Sailor Danubian Sailor It does, at least if you actually apprnf the iframe to document.

This doesn't seem to be working in Chrome right now, although it used to work. I wonder if it kind of intermittently stops working in different versions of Chrome. Works in Chrome as of Version Does not work with images in Firefox v It just renders the image in the iframe. This will fail silently if the file is of a type the browser knows how to render itself, though unless the server returns a Content-Disposition header indicating the file should be downloaded.

The question is explicitly asking how to do this with a button instead of a link. Delconis Delconis 2 2 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges.

This at least the first implementation doesn't necessarily trigger a download. You can hide the download link and make the button click it. Starwarswii Starwarswii 1, 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. For this to work in Firefox, the resource has to be on the same domain as the document.

Setting CORS headers does not help. Don't ever do this — Wannes. John Weisz This does not work, if your file, for example, is an image, since it would just be opened in the browser. Another issue occurs which is if the file is missing it navigates the entire page to a page — Hugheth.

It works perfectly in for every file , and it is the simplest solution of all. Hello I just include the word 'download' and works well.

Juca Duarte Juca Duarte 91 6 6 bronze badges. David Willhite David Willhite 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. Change it to your own relative path. Explanation I noticed there were comments under a lot of the answers that said the browser would just try to open the file itself rather than downloading it depending on the file type.

However, Button 1 would download the file for file types that it couldn't open itself for example,. Button 2 downloaded the text file. However, Button 2 only downloaded the file if the path was relative. When I changed the path to an absolute path, then the browser opened it in a new tab.

I tested this on Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. Suragch Suragch k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Like other solutions here that use a default form action, this doesn't necessarily trigger a download. It simply causes the browser to navigate to the target URL. Whether that results in the file at that URL being downloaded or being shown as a page in the browser depends upon the headers returned by the server when it serves the file and on what file types the browser is capable of rendering.

Ronaldo Ronaldo 79 2 2 bronze badges. For Chrome it is a great solution — Hayk Aramyan. Doesn't work in Safari either: W3 Schools — Alex. Not working in the MS browsers is a rather big problem and Chrome is not always going to be the answer.