Download data url file

Question

I\'m playing with the idea of making a completely JavaScript-based zip/unzip utility that anyone can access from a browser. They can just drag their zip directly into the br

Answer 1

Want to share my experience and help someone stuck on the downloads not working in Firefox and updated answer to 2014. The below snippet will work in both firefox and chrome and it will accept a filename:

  // Construct the  element
  var link = document.createElement("a");
  link.download = thefilename;
  // Construct the uri
  var uri = 'data:text/csv;charset=utf-8;base64,' + someb64data
  link.href = uri;
  document.body.appendChild(link);
  link.click();
  // Cleanup the DOM
  document.body.removeChild(link);