Javascript to Download String
javascript
Solution
using my handy downloader:
<script src="http://danml.com/js/download.js"></script>
<script>download("hello world", "hello.txt", "text/plain")</script>
you can do it without a library as well, though my "lib" isn't very big and supports older FF+CH and IE10:
<a id=dl download="file.txt">Download</a>
<script>
content=prompt("enter contents");
dl.href="data:text/plain,"+encodeURIComponent(content);
dl.click();
</script>
EDIT: the linked script now supports window.URL.createObjectURL() for downloading files that were too big using dataURLs. I don't know the new limit, but 10mb works just file, whereas ~2mb is a limit for many dataURL ( window.open/A[download] - based ) solutions3
Problem
Trying to initiate a browser download in Javascript, but the data I want to be downloaded is in a string, not a file. I know if it were a file, the following would do it: ``` window.location.href = '/filepath/file.csv'; ``` How can I get this same effect, only with a string (with csv data), not a file that already exists on the server?