The server tells the browser whether the content you are getting is "inline" or not. If you are controlling the server, you will want to change the server's settings for whether to serve the problematic file as an attachment. Otherwise, there are browser plug-ins which allow you to override this.
The question if the PDF file is opened in the window or downloaded depends on the software the user has installed, i don't think it is possible to control that. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Opening files in browser instead of downloading Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 4 months ago. Active 2 months ago. Viewed 38k times.
Improve this question. Possible duplicate of How to force files to open in browser instead of download pdf? In an effort to make modern browsers more user friendly, their developers have started to display content inside the web browser that used to require an additional application to view or a user may want to download instead. Many browsers such as Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Google Chrome have the default behavior of viewing the file in the browser window instead of prompting the user to save the file to a location.
As long as you have the ability to edit the HTML code of the page, you can use a simple HTML tweak that will allow you to control when the file download prompt appears if the user clicks a link or a button. In some cases, the name of the file that is stored on the web server is not the most useful to the user. As of this post, all major desktop browsers excluding Microsoft IE support the download attribute. It is likely that people who use these browsers would likely rather view the document rather than saving it to their phone.
New to HTML 5. Forum Moderators: open. If the user does not have adobe reader installed Tera rocknbil Msg pm on Jan 24, gmt 0 Senior Member joined:Nov 28, posts votes: 0. Here is the problem: browsers associate files with helper applications. So if directly linked to, the browser will always recognize a PDF or a.
In some browsers this is true even if you change the extension - it "sniffs out" the file type by reading in the file headers.
So if you want to force a download of a known file type, I know of only one way to do it: create a server-side application that supplies an unknown content-type. When you use an application to output to the browser perl, PHP, asp, etc. So it prompts for a download. You can make this really slick by pre-populating the filename box.
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