Letting a user download a webpage's html file

#1

I was experimenting with an <a> tag and wanted to be able to let a user download the pen’s html. I tried a lot, but it didn’t work.

https://codepen.io/Glaurung/pen/YzPEpxR?editors=1000

Can you please tell me how I can make the html a downloadable file? Thanks.

#2

@ConnerOw1115, did you try this?

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_download.asp

#3

Hi,

here is a link

Only the full source button works now. On the other one I have to find the bug… :frowning:

this is the php code:

<?php
$pathinfo = pathinfo($_GET["fileName"]);
show_source($pathinfo["basename"]);
?>

and here is the code of the button:

<a class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" id="fullSource" href="showfullsource.php?fileName=<?php echo htmlentities($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>" role="button" target="_blank">Full Source</a>

only the href attribute important, everything else are style only…
Read more in php manual
I don’t know any front-end method like the above but I will look around, this challenge interest me too.

#4

Okay, that works, but I can’t seem to be able to let any user download my computer’s files and I need, when a user clicks on the link, to let them download the pen’s html.

#5

Use Github instead of pen.
From Github anyone can download your files if your repositories are public. This is the easiest way.

#6

Okay. I’ll try that later.

#7

I think this may be what you were looking for @ConnerOw1115

Quick pen using download

#8