Open save as dialog on newly opened window

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How in JS/jQuery do I pop open the "Save As" dialog for a newly opened window. Basically I am scraping some data off of a web page. As such I am opening a new window via:

dataWindow = window.open('blank','dataWindow');

I then write the output to the blank window but I want to automatically pop open the "Save As" dialog to save the content of the window to a file (text/csv). How would I do this. I tried:

dataWindow.document.execCommand("saveAs",true,".txt");

but it doesn't seem to do anything.

Don't care if it works in IE...I only need it to work in Firefox — GregH, Dec 15 '09 at 23:10
Sorry, I don't get how to send the content-disposition header using JS once the output is sent to the window. — GregH, Dec 15 '09 at 23:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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execCommand is not an ideal way to do this kind of thing, since it's a pretty browser-specific extension to javascript.

There's a good suggestion in this thread to make a Save As dialog happen by returning a content-disposition header to make the browser think that the content is an attachment.

Edit: This other thread also has some suggestions along the same lines.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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answered Dec 15 '09 at 22:51

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