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Downloading Images

Explore how to implement image downloading in Nuxt 3 applications by using the download attribute and custom JavaScript functions. Understand the limitations of the download attribute with cross-origin URLs and learn to create a seamless download process with JavaScript's fetch API and Blob objects for enhanced user interaction.

The download attribute

We can make the selected images available to download to the user. This can be achieved in different ways. One way is to add the download attribute to an <a> element. Let’s take a look at the following example:

HTML
<a href="images/dog.jpg" download="image.jpg">download</a>
<a :href="selectedImage.largeImageURL" download="image.jpg">download</a>
  • Line 1: This example shows the download attribute with an optional name of image.jpg. This will be the name of the file after downloading.

  • Line 2: This second example is how we may approach this using ...