Using javascript to download file as a.csv file

Question

Hi I am trying to export a file as .csv file, so that when the user clicks on the download button, the browser would automatically download the file as .csv. I also want to

Answer 1

in modern browsers there is a new attribute in anchors.

download

http://caniuse.com/download

so instead of using

window.open("data:text/csv;charset=utf-8," + escape(csv))

create a download link:

download

another solution is to use php

EDIT

i don't use jQuery, but you need to edit your code to add the download link with something like that in your function.

var csv=ConvertToCSV(jsonObject),
a=document.createElement('a');
a.textContent='download';
a.download="myFileName.csv";
a.href='data:text/csv;charset=utf-8,'+escape(csv);
document.body.appendChild(a);