Create new file javascript

There's type, which you use to specify the mime type of your file. After you've done this, the Blob exists but it's not yet ready for downloading. For that we need to create an Object URL:. This creates an actual link that we can use to link to our created blob, it starts with blob:. Now we have a file URL that refers to our blob, but you'll notice it doesn't actually have a name yet.

The a element has an attribute called "download". If it's present without value, it means that the URL should download when a user clicks on it. But we can also give it a value, and that value will be used as a suggestion for the file name. Because we created our file in JavaScript, we'll also create the link in JavaScript, then add it to the page:.

You'd add it to a specific element of course, not just at the end of the document, but this is just for illustration. And there you have it, In just a few lines of code you've created a file and given it mime type and file name.

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