HTML Links for File Downloads

HTML links can also be used to create file downloads links by providing the file path to the href attribute on <a> element as shown below.

Files can be of any below types.

<a href="files/sample.txt">File Download Link</a>

Example

Check the outcome of the below HTML document to see how it looks.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>HTML Links for File Downloads</h1>
    <a href="files/sample.txt">Download Text file</a><br>
    <a href="files/sample.png">Download Image file</a><br>
    <a href="files/sample.pdf">Download PDF File</a><br>
    <a href="files/sample.zip">Download ZIP File</a><br>
</body>
</html>

Overall

HTML links can be used to define file download links.

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