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What Happens If a Hyper Link Points to a ZIP File?

If you want to build a hyper link to allow visitors to access a ZIP file by clicking a hyper link, you can put the URL of the ZIP file directly in the "href" attribute of the hyper link. If a visitor clicks the link, the browser will fetch the PDF file, and display a dialog box to ask you to save the file to your local computer.

The tutorial example below shows you how ZIP files can be linked by hyper links:

  <p>Click the hyper link to save the 
  <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/xhtml1.zip"
   >ZIP File</a> provided by www.w3.org.</p>

The above code is included below in this document, so you can try it now.

Click the hyper link to save the ZIP File provided by www.w3.org.

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1. What Are Hyper Links?
2. What Is an Anchor "a" Tag/Element?
3. How To Define a Hyper Link?
4. How To Define a Bookmark?
5. What Is a URL?
6. What Is the Structure of a URL?
7. What Happens If Protocol or Port Number Is Missing in a URL?
8. What Happens If a URL Starts with Path or File name?
9. What Is a Relative Path Name?
10. What Happens If File Name is Missing in a URL?
11. How To Build Hyper Link Indexes within the Same Document?
12. What Happens If a Hyper Link Points to an Image?
13. What Happens If a Hyper Link Points to a Music File?
14. What Happens If a Hyper Link Points to a PDF File?
15. What Happens If a Hyper Link Points to a ZIP File?
16. How To Create A Link to Open a Document in a New Window?