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herb49
03-31-2009, 12:55 PM
can someone tell me why my winzip 9.0 file opens from my web site instead of producing a download box. for file that can be downloaded, i used Front page 2003 to build the site. hyperlink code is right but everytime i click the download button it open the file in a differant window.

Thanks
herb49

Declan1991
04-02-2009, 02:43 PM
HTML cannot force a download, only PHP can. Other than that, it is the settings on the browser that determine how the file is handled. Normally (well Firefox and Opera I'm most familiar with), give the user a choice of opening a file or downloading it, IE in this case obviously defaultly opens it.