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gamliela
gamliela

Reputation: 4069

Can I use HTML5 download attribute for HTML forms?

HTML5 introduced a nice feature for marking <a> links as download endpoints, by simply adding download attribute to the <a> tag (see description).

Is it possible to do the same for HTML forms?

Here is a simple use case for example: I have a form that requests the user for some details, and after the user submits the form the server should return a file according to these details.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3184

Answers (3)

Patrick Hofman
Patrick Hofman

Reputation: 156968

No, form doesn't have a download attribute, so it is not possible to have that exact behavior with a form.

You can set the output file name through a post though, by setting the Content-Disposition HTTP header:

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="yourPicture.png"

Upvotes: 1

yncyrydybyl
yncyrydybyl

Reputation: 56

This is not possible. According to the specification is the "download" attribute only specified for a and area.

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/links.html#downloading-resources

Upvotes: 4

Prashant Tapase
Prashant Tapase

Reputation: 2147

Yes after submitting data you can return file in form of pdf or else. By using header function

<?php
//create pdf with details
.....
.
.
// We'll be outputting a PDF
header('Content-type: application/pdf');

// It will be called downloaded.pdf
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"');
?>

But this is not possible using download attribute

Upvotes: -1

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