Trigger download pdf link

Is there any way i can download my pdf on my custom button click without using in built PdfDownloadLink? The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:. It would be nice to be provided with a trigger that could be passed to onClick handlers. Sorry, something went wrong. Note that this will generate the pdf when the page loads. If you don't want that you'll need to mess with loading and displaying the link based on if the button is clicked.

I've accomplished this via some headaches that I'm trying to solve in Here's an example of how to do a custom onClick handler on a button to lazy load the PDF:. Feel free to tweak to your needs. I slimmed my code down quite a bit for the example here. However, in a real code base I also track when it is async loading the pdf blob to disable multiple onClick events, and cache the generated blob to speed up subsequent download clicks.

I'd imagine many other developers do not need to generate the PDF until a user clicks on their button, as I did. Usually, people refer to this button that is available when you open a PDF file in the browser like Google Chrome :.

Unfortunately, the answer to this question is no. You cannot track that because you are now viewing the PDF file directly in a browser and you cannot place tracking codes in these files. Once you get a grasp on the main concepts, like triggers, tags, variables, you should be up-and-running fairly quickly. Every time a file link is clicked, the trigger will be activated and the GA tag will be fired.

If file links on your site do not contain file names or extensions, you should cooperate with a developer:. This is so helpful, thank you!! I really appreciate how you walked through the very very basic beginner steps as well. Any idea how to track direct links to a PDF file? Everything above makes sense from a link click perspective, but how would you handle someone taking your PDF link and posting it online and then as a website owner, knowing how many people not only see the PDF from link clicks, but also from direct traffic?

Super helpful. I'm applying for jobs and have a resume link on my website-now I can see how often it has been clicked. Thank you so much for this really clear explanation! I've not used GTM before and was quite confused about how to go about tracking downloads and getting it hooked up properly with Google Analytics.

With your super clear step-by-step guide I've now got it up and running in no time. I really appreciate the effort you've put into this. I was wondering. Why did you choose page url as a label and not the click label? Also what is the use of the delay and page path condition? Just curious :. If you click a link and then the user is redirected, GA might not have enough time to send the data if PDF is opened in the same window.

If you want to give it more time to send the data, you can use Wait for tags. This applies not only to GA tags but to all tags. Yes I saw, I think you misunderstoond me. Why would you use page path and not the 'click text'? The page path can always be found since it's recorded when the event is triggered. The click text most times has a better name to recognize what has been clicked :. Thanks for the answer. Would you say: no harm, no foul? This is up to you. I just showed an example.

If I wanted to create a goal based on a click of particular URL just on the particular page, then Page Path would be useful. To sum up: your naming convention depends on your needs. Imagine delaying every link click for up to 2 seconds.

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This doesn't necessarily trigger a download. It simply causes the browser to navigate to file. Whether that results in file. Show 3 more comments. Ani Menon What if i wanna download a xml file? Thanks for your code. I have tested, it can working in IE, Chrome, Firefox. If you have a file acceptable by the browser like a PDF it will open in new tab instead to show download dialog.

You could use window. Show 1 more comment. Stefanos Chrs Stefanos Chrs 1, 2 2 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 44 44 bronze badges. NicholasKyriakides Kind of reminds me of this gem: image. BryanLarsen You are right, Firefox doesn't allow this without adding the element to body first.

Thank you, updating the answer — Stefanos Chrs. Is there a way that javascript function be triggered once the download finishes? Just trying to show a message once downloads start and remove the message once download completes.

This is best solution out here and should be accepted answer. Show 6 more comments. Mark Amery k 65 65 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Matt Ball Matt Ball k 95 95 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Perfect, thanks. Do you happen to know if most servers will set the Content-Disposition to 'attachment' by default?

There is no "most. Don't rely on it being set. This issue has been driving me ballistic, and this was the only option that worked and is supported by IE. No jquery. This doest work if you're trying to download an image, it would open the image in the browser — Dheeraj.

Danubian Sailor Danubian Sailor It does, at least if you actually apprnf the iframe to document. This doesn't seem to be working in Chrome right now, although it used to work. I wonder if it kind of intermittently stops working in different versions of Chrome.

Works in Chrome as of Version Does not work with images in Firefox v