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

The solution I have come up with is that you can use download attribute in anchor tag but it will only work if your html file is on the server. but you may have a question like while designing a simple html page how can we check that for that you can use VS code live server or bracket live server and you will see your download attribute will work but if you will try to open it simply by just double clicking html page it open the file instead of downloading it. conclusion: attribute download in anchor tag only works if your html file is no server.