Download Attribute in <A> Tag Doesn't Work When File Url Called from Sub Domain

html 'download' attribute opens up a new page instead of downloading

According to caniuse report:

Chrome 65 and above only supports same-origin download links.

Firefox only supports same-origin download links

The same-origin means that you have to actually download the image or whatever to your local computer if you're developing with your own computer and use <a href="./pic/[Pic_Name].[Pic_Ext]" class="btn btn-outline-success btn-sm" target="_blank" download>Download</a>

And if you are developing with localhost, just omit the . before the /pic. Same for a remote server.

Also, if you're using an outdated version of the browser, the download attribute never works. Check caniuse.com for more...

How to download file using anchor tag a

In HTML5, in most browsers you can add a 'download' attribute to the a element.

for example:

<a href="http://www.example.com/index.html" download>Download</a>

Based on this question. How can I create download link in html?

AngularJS prevents HTML5 download link from starting a download

use ng-href instead of href

<li><a ng-href="/api/v1/rna/{{ rna.upi }}.fasta" download="{{ rna.upi }}.fasta">FASTA</a></li>

Download attribute on A tag not working in IE

Internet Explorer does not presently support the Download attribute on A tags.

See http://caniuse.com/download and http://status.modern.ie/adownloadattribute; the latter indicates that the feature is "Under consideration" for IE12.

How to trigger a file download when clicking an HTML button or JavaScript

For the button you can do

<form method="get" action="file.doc">
   <button type="submit">Download!</button>
</form>

How should I link a CSS file for the subdomain from the main domain?

When you have a case that the same source code will be used at different nesting levels (like /index.htm and /hire/index.htm or different domains you might want to consider the HTML BASE tag.

<base href="http://joeisaacson.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/style.css" type="text/css">

This will fetch the CSS from http://joeisaacson.com/css/style.css regardless of where the HTML page is served as long as you realise it will do this for all external resources (images, css, js, etc).

Just be sure BASE tag is inside HEAD and comes before any linked content. You also do not close this tag in HTML (so no </base> or <base /> is expected)

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