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"Make downloads open in new window"

Hi everyone,

please can anyone tell me when I hyperlink to a file to download, how do I get the download to open in a new window? I am still using Microsoft Publisher..

Thank you

Well in that case the target="_blank" within an <a> element should do the trick.

Have you tried it, had any problems?

Hi,

thank you for your reply. Yes, that's it and to return to the web page you must click the "Back" button and the excel sheet closes.

Regards

Just out of interest, is the problem that the Excel documents open within the web browser when you click the hyperlink, rather than downloading in the proper download dialog box?

in your anchor ( tag, put the target there, if you are using frames and want a page to open in a different frame, put the target as the name name, as said in other messages, just use _blank or _new etc. for a new window. _parent will use the current browser / window but will over-ride all frames.

Eg.

wadA.
simon123 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thank you for your reply. Please could you explain, does the
> page url go in the code, say my page is www.anypage.com and I
> hyperlink to a download in folder Downloads called lists.xls
>
> How would the hyperlink code look please?
>
> Thank you once again

<a target="_blank" href="Downloads/lists.xls">CLICK HERE</a>

Hi,

thank you for your reply. Please could you explain, does the page url go in the code, say my page is www.anypage.com and I hyperlink to a download in folder Downloads called lists.xls

How would the hyperlink code look please?

Thank you once again

Hi, thank you for your reply.

I wanted to have the Excel list download in a new window because when you want to view another list (Download) you have to click the "Back" button to return to the website. Ideally, download each sepperate list so you can switch from one to the other as required.

You can use <a href="page.htm" [B]target="[I]_blank[/I]">[/B]new window</a> to open a new window, but I'm not too sure what you're after - as a downloading file usually opens up in its own little dialog box.

Hi everyone,

please can anyone tell me when I hyperlink to a file to download, how do I get the download to open in a new window? I am still using Microsoft Publisher..

Thank you