Jquery how to trigger file download

If you are persisting these in some way, just null each field value in your action class after persisting and prior to returning SUCCESS. How are we doing? Please help us improve Stack Overflow. Take our short survey. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 12 years, 3 months ago.

Active 5 months ago. Viewed k times. How can I prompt a download for a user when they click a link. Can this be done with jQuery, if so, how? Or should this be done with PHP or something instead? RedBlueThing Dodinas Dodinas 6, 22 22 gold badges 73 73 silver badges bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Thanks, this is what I was looking for.

I usually use "preventDefault", just left it out above because I was being lazy. Works great, but get some MIME type errors. Curious if there are any ways to get past them? Did you solve MIME type warning? Rob Rob 2, 13 13 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Loading User Profile Response title. Publish Back to edit Cancel. Sign In. New to this Portal? Click here to Sign up. You can also use the below options to login. Search jQuery Search.

Move this topic Cancel. Using jQuery Plugins. What I used to do is using the plain form submit with hidden iframe, and the endpoint generates a response that contains Content-Disposition. But, I need to some additional information in the response header in this case, the list of images files that are corrupted. I switched to use Jquery form plugin. Recommended Articles. Article Contributed By :. Easy Normal Medium Hard Expert. Writing code in comment? Please use ide. Load Comments. What's New.

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