How to trigger cross-browser automatic download of PDF file?

  • I want to create a link on my page for an automatic download of a PDF file. I know I can use the download attribute but that is not cross-browser yet. Everything I’ve tried just links to the media attachment page and then the user would have to download from there. I prefer to save them that step and make it more seamless for them. Is there currently a cross-browser way to achieve this?

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  • How about adding this to your .htaccess file:

    # FORCE DOWNLOAD
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|pdf)$">
  ForceType application/octet-stream
  Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>
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