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?
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
