download file using jquery code example

Example 1: how to download jquery

You have quite a few options

You can get the whole source
Uncompressed dev: https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.js
Compressed production: https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js
You the simply save the code into a Javascript file and include it in the usual way
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>

Or point to a CDN, such as Google's
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

You can get it using NPM, Yarn or Bower
npm install jquery
yarn add jquery
bower install jquery

You can even get the latest builds from GitHub
git clone git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git

Example 2: download file in jquery

function download(filename, text) {
  var element = document.createElement('a');
  element.setAttribute('href', 'data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,' + encodeURIComponent(text));
  element.setAttribute('download', filename);

  element.style.display = 'none';
  document.body.appendChild(element);

  element.click();

  document.body.removeChild(element);
}

// Start file download.
download("hello.txt","This is the content of my file");