How to trigger a file download when clicking an HTML button or JavaScript

Question

This is crazy but I don\'t know how to do this, and because of how common the words are, it\'s hard to find what I need on search engines. I\'m thinking this should be an ea

Answer 1

Old thread but it's missing a simple js solution:

let a = document.createElement('a')
a.href = item.url
a.download = item.url.split('/').pop()
document.body.appendChild(a)
a.click()
document.body.removeChild(a)