HTML: how to create a "save as" button?

javascript html button save-as
His picture His · May 17, 2010 · Viewed 36.3k times · Source

In your browser, when you want to save an HTML page that you are currently viewing, you normally go to the File menu and click Save As.

Can I have a little button at the bottom of an HTML page that does the same thing? So instead of going to the File menu -> Save As, I want my user to be able to click the button to save the page on to the disk.

There is a solution exists using Javascript as far as I know, but it only works for IE. See here: link text

Answer

Alex K. picture Alex K. · May 17, 2010

You could have the link run a server side script that loads the HTML file and writes it back to the client with a Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=xxx.html header.

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