Re: trigger download with left-click?

on 17/06/03 9:00 PM, Sam Folk-Williams (sfolkwilliams@mn.rr.com) wrote: > I have a site with hundreds of downloadable forms in MS Word format. > Right now to download a form you have to right-click and choose "Save > Target As..." to download the form. Is there a simple script that I > could put in that would trigger the download with a left-click? (The end > users are not very savy and are having a hard time with the "Save target > as..." concept). "Save target as" is really the only option... I'd consider it a privacy issue otherwise (you could end up with all sorts of sh*t on your HDD otherwise)... unless their browser is set-up to automatically save certain mime types... Different browser behave differently... left-click isn't even an option for some users (macs and PDA's (?) are just one example)... My suggestion is to provide a help file on the topic... downloading files is pretty basic... Or, do they really need to download? Why can't you just create a HTML version of the doc, display it in the browser, and let them choose "save page as..." from the browser menu. Justin