NavigateEvent: downloadRequest property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The downloadRequest read-only property of the NavigateEvent interface returns the filename of the file requested for download, in the case of a download navigation (e.g. an <a> or <area> element with a download attribute), or null otherwise.

Value

A string containing the filename of the file requested for download, or null.

Examples

js
navigation.addEventListener("navigate", (event) => {
  // Some navigations, e.g. cross-origin navigations, we
  // cannot intercept. Let the browser handle those normally.
  if (!event.canIntercept) {
    return;
  }

  // Don't intercept fragment navigations or downloads.
  if (event.hashChange || event.downloadRequest !== null) {
    return;
  }

  event.intercept({
    handler() {
      if (event.formData) {
        processFormDataAndUpdateUI(event.formData, event.signal);
      } else {
        doSinglePageAppNav(event.destination, event.signal);
      }
    },
  });
});

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android
downloadRequest 102 102 No 88 No 102 No 70 No 19.0 102

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigateEvent/downloadRequest