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Hi all,

A few of my HTML5 pages have hyperlinks to files (plain text, but with a custom file type). If the user clicks these links in their browser, I need to force these links to download rather than opening directly in the browser.

HTML5 supports the "download" attribute, as in the following example: But when I try to include this in my topic files, the Text editor gives me the warning: I can't seem to find a way around it. The clumsy way is to tell the user to right-click the link, but I need to make this idiot-proof.

So, has anyone else successfully implemented the download attribute?

I got also same error
This works: Note: for some file types used .zip format

richt wrote:HTML5 supports the "download" attribute, as in the following example:

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<a href="path/to/file" download>Click here to download</a>

It doesn't work because Flare uses XHTML, not HTML.

In XHTML, you can't use shorthand (minimisation) for attributes; all attributes must have a value.
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_xhtml.asp

So instead of using download , you need to use download=""