Save from textarea

[benclinch]

Hey!

How can I make a document where I have a textarea, and a save as button. When they click the button it comes up with a standard save as dialog. Probably to save a .txt file. I will save everything in the text area.

Thanks alot,

Ben

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You won't be able to reliably do this cross-browser / cross-OS. You can probably do it in IE using execCommand, but that's IE-only, so not really suited to internet apps.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[benclinch]

Thanks for replying, is there any way I can do it so that instead of "Save As", it will ask to download it? I suppose this would be even better!

Thanks in advance.

Ben

 

[cLFlaVA]

i suggest doing this with server-side code, such as PHP, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion, the list goes on. these languages are really more competent in file writing, and do not rely on certain operating systems, browsers, or enabling of javascript.



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