Reply To: File field – problem with downloading

• John Huebner

• April 27, 2017 at 10:07 am

Files that browsers know will be opened in the browser. This is not a specific ACF issue. There is no 100% reliable way to make all browsers to download linked files that they can open natively.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3802510/force-to-open-save-as-popup-open-at-text-link-click-for-pdf-in-html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23825871/how-to-force-a-download-file-prompt-instead-of-displaying-it-in-browser-with-htm