Hi All,

Recently I came across new features in HTML5 that was quite impressive and one such is the new download attribute. This new feature allows you to set a separate download file name than the actual file name available in the link itself.

<a href="http://www.planwallpaper.com/static/images/Winter-Tiger-Wild-Cat-Images.jpg" download="animal.jpg">Download Animal Image</a>

So, when the end user clicks on the link, the download attribute name appears in the save dialog and not the file actual name which can be sometime very messy. In above case, the file will be downloaded as animal.jpg and not the Winter-Tiger-Wild-Cat-Images.jpg

Things to be taken care off. Firstly, the file name on the server side needs to be unique, however the download attribute allows the file name to be more meaningful.