HTML force user to download PDF file from URL

Question

I am getting server side URL to my HTML,on click of that URL PDF file is opening in browser itself,Since the PDF is larger Size I want to force the user to download it(saveas pop up) Please help me

Answer 1

You don't need javascript to do this. In a modern browser you can simply do <a href="somepathto.pdf" download="filename">

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