Web platform features explorer - download

Web platform features explorer

The download attribute for <a> elements loads the target URL as a file to be saved, instead of navigating to it. An optional attribute value sets a default file name.

Status

Baseline Widely Available (since 2022-03-19)

MDN documentation

Download, in <a>: The Anchor element

Specifications

HTML (#attr-hyperlink-download), from HTML Workstream (WHATWG).

Browser support (view on caniuse.com)

Chrome 14 Released on 2011-09-16
Chrome Android 18 Released on 2012-06-27
Edge 18 Released on 2018-10-02
Firefox 20 Released on 2013-04-02
Firefox for Android 20 Released on 2013-04-02
Safari 10.1 Released on 2017-03-27
Safari on iOS 13 Released on 2019-09-19

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