Download with HTML

[Heselmans Yannick]

Hi,

I don't know if it is possible but i would like to permit people to download
a JPG picture just by clicking on it. I have tried with <a href> tags but
this only download files like .exe, .zip, .pdf and it does'nt work with file
like .jpg, .gif, ...

I suppose I should add a parameter in my tag but I don't know wich one ?
Something like

<a href="adress_of_the_JPG_file" download="true"> <img
src="adress_of_the_JPG_file"></a>

Thank you for helping me and sorry if I made some mistake but I am french.

Yan

[Jukka K. Korpela]

brucie <br******@loser.brucies.com> wrote:

I don't know if it is possible but i would like to permit people
to download a JPG picture just by clicking on it.
if they can see it they've already downloaded it.

Indeed. And the FAQ _has_ something about this. Actually, quite a lot.
tell them to left
click on it and drag it to their location of choice (file sys,
graphics program etc etc). or right click and "save as..." or
whatever else the browser/OS your visitors use will let them do.

Or don't. It would be redundant and even irritating to many users.
While it might help a small minority (who understand the instructions -
remember that communication always fails! - but did not know the method
already), it would confuse some other minority, such as people using
"different browsers".

The idea of using

<a href="adress_of_the_JPG_file"> <img
src="adress_of_the_JPG_file"></a>

is interesting, and has some basis in the HTML 2.0 (sic) specification,
which reminds us the fact that some browsers can deal with linked
images but not embedded images. For example, it would be much easier to
download the image using Lynx when there's a link. Naturally the <img>
element shall have an alt="..." attribute, for this purpose and many
others.

But adding download="true" would be pointless, since no such attribute
exists, or needs to exist.

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Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html

[brucie]

In post <Xn*****************************@193.229.0.31>
Jukka K. Korpela said...

I don't know if it is possible but i would like to permit people
to download a JPG picture just by clicking on it.

if they can see it they've already downloaded it.

Indeed. And the FAQ _has_ something about this. Actually, quite a lot. tell them to left click on it and drag it to their location of choice (file
sys, graphics program etc etc). or right click and "save as..." or whatever
else the browser/OS your visitors use will let them do.

Or don't. It would be redundant and even irritating to many users.
While it might help a small minority (who understand the instructions -
remember that communication always fails! - but did not know the method
already), it would confuse some other minority, such as people using
"different browsers".

when i had my button site one of my biggest FAQs was how to save the
images. admittedly the site was aimed at newbies but the numbers
asking was amazing and disheartening. i had a page dedicated to
instructions with lots of pictures for all the UAs that appeared in my
stats. it still wasn't enough. one person that emailed wanted me to
make an international phone call to walk them through what they had to
do.

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brucie a. blackford. 01/August/2003 07:17:02 am kilo.
http://loser.brucies.com/