TIL the Download attribute in links

POSTED ON: Dec 10, 2021

TAGS: html

<a href="link/to/your/file" download="filename.pdf">Download</a>

Note: This only works on the same origin requests, not cross origin.

mysite.com/filename.pdf works
google.com/random-internet/filename.pdf will not work.

REF:
mdn - attr download
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