[removed] Download data to file from content within the page

Question

setting is the following: I have a homepage where I display a diagram that has been constructed using comma seperated values from within the page. I\'d like to give users th

Answer 1

If your users have up to date browsers, the new Blob object could help you.

Based on the example here https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM/Blob ("Blob constructor example usage"), you could do something like the following:

var typedArray = "123,abc,456"; //your csv as a string
var blob = new Blob([typedArray], {type: "text/csv"});
var url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
var a = document.querySelector("#linktocsv"); // the id of the  element where you will render the download link
a.href = url;
a.download = "file.csv";