Force browser to download image files on click

I need the browser to download the image files just as it does while clicking on an Excel sheet.

Is there a way to do this using client-side programming only?

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <title></title>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/jquery-1.10.2.js">
        $(document).ready(function () {
            $("*").click(function () {
                $("p").hide();
            });
        });
        </script>
    </head>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        document.onclick = function (e) {
            e = e || window.event;
            var element = e.target || e.srcElement;
            if (element.innerHTML == "Image") {
                //someFunction(element.href);
                var name = element.nameProp;
                var address = element.href;
                saveImageAs1(element.nameProp, element.href);
                return false; // Prevent default action and stop event propagation
            }
            else
                return true;
        };

        function saveImageAs1(name, adress) {
            if (confirm('you wanna save this image?')) {
                window.win = open(adress);
                //response.redirect("~/testpage.html");
                setTimeout('win.document.execCommand("SaveAs")', 100);
                setTimeout('win.close()', 500);
            }
        }
    </script>

    <body>
        <form id="form1" runat="server">
            <div>
                <p>
                    <a href="http://localhost:55298/SaveImage/demo/Sample2.xlsx" target="_blank">Excel</a><br />
                    <a href="http://localhost:55298/SaveImage/demo/abc.jpg" id="abc">Image</a>
                </p>
            </div>
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

How should it work in case of downloading an Excel sheet (what browsers do)?

Solution 1:

Using HTML5 you can add the attribute 'download' to your links.

<a href="/path/to/image.png" download>

Compliant browsers will then prompt to download the image with the same file name (in this example image.png).

If you specify a value for this attribute, then that will become the new filename:

<a href="/path/to/image.png" download="AwesomeImage.png">

UPDATE: As of spring 2018 this is no longer possible for cross-origin hrefs. So if you want to create <a href="https://i.imgur.com/IskAzqA.jpg" download> on a domain other than imgur.com it will not work as intended. Chrome deprecations and removals announcement

Solution 2:

I managed to get this working in Chrome and Firefox too by appending a link to the to document.

var link = document.createElement('a');
link.href = 'images.jpg';
link.download = 'Download.jpg';
document.body.appendChild(link);
link.click();
document.body.removeChild(link);

Solution 3:

Leeroy & Richard Parnaby-King:

UPDATE: As of spring 2018 this is no longer possible for cross-origin hrefs. So if you want to create on a domain other than imgur.com it will not work as intended. Chrome deprecations and removals announcement

function forceDownload(url, fileName){
    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.open("GET", url, true);
    xhr.responseType = "blob";
    xhr.onload = function(){
        var urlCreator = window.URL || window.webkitURL;
        var imageUrl = urlCreator.createObjectURL(this.response);
        var tag = document.createElement('a');
        tag.href = imageUrl;
        tag.download = fileName;
        document.body.appendChild(tag);
        tag.click();
        document.body.removeChild(tag);
    }
    xhr.send();
}

Force browser to download image files on click

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