Creating Javascript Blob() with data from HTML Element. Then downloading it as a text file

Question

I'm using an HTML5 site to create a log per-say within a textarea element. I need to pull the data from that area with the click of a button, and download it to my computer via a .txt file. How would I go about doing this if it is possible??

HTML:

<input type="button" onclick="newBlob()" value="Clear and Export">

Javascript:

function newBlob() {
    var blobData = document.getElementById("ticketlog").value;
    var myBlob = new Blob(blobData, "plain/text");
    blobURL = URL.createObjectURL(myBlob);
    var href = document.createElement("a");
    href.href = blobURL;
    href.download = myBlob;
    href.id = "download"
    document.getElementById("download").click();
}

I figure if I make the Blob, create a URL for it, map the URL to an "a" element then auto-click it then it should work in theory. Obviously I'm missing something though. Any help would be fantastic. 1st question on this site btw:p

Answer 1

The simplest way I've come up with is as follows:

function download(text, filename){
  var blob = new Blob([text], {type: "text/plain"});
  var url = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
  var a = document.createElement("a");
  a.href = url;
  a.download = filename;
  a.click();
}

download("this is the file", "text.txt");

List of possible blob filestypes: http://www.freeformatter.com/mime-types-list.html