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I am trying to download a text file that i created using the file space api on chrome. I am unable to download it. I can only view it on the chrome browser itself.

location.href = fileEntry.toURL();

That is the line of code i currently use to download it.

Could i use content-disposition to force download a .txt file? if so, how?

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Check out the FileSaver interface: http://www.w3.org/TR/file-writer-api/#the-filesaver-interface.

Here's a sample that does what you want: http://oftn.org/projects/FileSaver.js/demo/

Here's an HTML5Rocks post that describes usage in more detail: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2011/08/Saving-generated-files-on-the-client-side

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You nee dot inluce this js file in your html github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js then saveAs would work

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