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[Graham]

Hi,

Could anyone please tell me how to put a download onto a web page so that
when someone clicks on the link it automatically downloads the file.

Thanks for any help you can provide

Graham

 

[Anduin]

Could anyone please tell me how to put a download onto a web page so that
when someone clicks on the link it automatically downloads the file.

It really depends on what type of file you are trying to get them to
download. If it's a photo or image, then when someone clicks it, instead
of downloading, it will display in their browser.

If you know how to use Winzip (http://winzip.com), compress any file you
want downloaded into a zip file.

On your web page, you would have something like this in your HTML:
<a href="filename.zip">Download</a>, that's if the file is in the same
directory as the page.

Hope this helps some...

Regards,
Anduin
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[brucie]

Could anyone please tell me how to put a download onto a web page so that
when someone clicks on the link it automatically downloads the file.

the visitors settings determine what happens when a link is clicked.
just do a normal link to the file and the visitors can take it from
there.

<a href="my-file.ext">download my file [5Gb]</a>

 

[Tom]

Anduin,

How do you put a photo or image on a webpage so when someone clicks it, instead
of downloading, it will display in their browser.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[Anduin]

How do you put a photo or image on a webpage so when someone clicks it, instead
of downloading, it will display in their browser.

<a href="image.jpg">photo of me</a>

Anduin
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[Graham]

Thanks everyone I thought it was something simple like that the files I want
people to download are a txt file and a doc file. I have created a link to
the file but I get an error message when I click on it saying:-

Action Cancelled
internet explorer was unable to link to the web page you requested. The page
might be temporarily unavailable.

I will try zipping the files up and see if that helps.

Thanks

 

[Graham]

Thanks for all your help changing the files to zip files did the trick.