How to force a pdf download automatically?

Question

Is there any way to force the user's download-manager to start a download for .PDF instead of showing the .PDF in a new window/tab?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2598658/how-to-force-a-pdf-download-automatically

Answer 1

use the download attribute inside your <a> tag

<a href="content/file.pdf" download > pdf link </a>
<a href="content/file.doc" download > doc link </a>