How to make a browser display a “save as dialog” so the user can save the content of a string to a file on his system?

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In case anyone is still wondering…

I did it like this:

<a href="data:application/xml;charset=utf-8,your code here" download="filename.html">Save</a>

can’t remember my source but it uses the following techniques\features:

  1. html5 download attribute
  2. data URI’s

Found the reference:

http://paxcel.net/blog/savedownload-file-using-html5-javascript-the-download-attribute-2/

EDIT:
As you can gather from the comments, this does NOT work in

  1. Internet Explorer (however works in Edge v13 and later)
  2. Opera Mini

http://caniuse.com/#feat=download

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