How to download a file from iframe in javascript?

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by adan , in category: Javascript , 2 months ago

How to download a file from iframe in javascript?

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by elisha_langworth , 2 months ago

@adan 

You cannot download a file directly from an iframe using JavaScript due to security restrictions. However, you can achieve this by creating a hidden anchor element, setting its href attribute to the file URL, and then triggering a click event on the anchor element. Here is an example code snippet:

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// Find the iframe element
var iframe = document.getElementById('your-iframe-id');

// Get the document object of the iframe
var iframeDoc = iframe.contentDocument || iframe.contentWindow.document;

// Find the link element inside the iframe
var link = iframeDoc.getElementById('link-to-file-id');

// Create a hidden anchor element
var anchor = document.createElement('a');
anchor.style.display = 'none';
document.body.appendChild(anchor);

// Set the href attribute of the anchor element to the file URL
anchor.href = link.href;

// Trigger a click event on the anchor element to start the download
anchor.click();

// Clean up
document.body.removeChild(anchor);


In this code snippet, your-iframe-id is the ID of the iframe element containing the file you want to download, and link-to-file-id is the ID of the link element inside the iframe that points to the file. This code snippet will programmatically trigger the download of the file when executed.