Hosting Files

Host your larger PDFs, images, audio and video files externally. Download them automatically.

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Download file on link click

Need to provide a PDF file for download, but the browser wants to display it?

You can host your PDFs and other files on Dropbox or Google drive and specify that they be downloaded.

Learn more about how to set this up;

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Download file on form submit

You can also use your Google Drive or Dropbox download URLs with Webflow's form redirect URL to require a form submission before download.

Related solutions;

  • Place the download link in the success message.
  • Redirect to another page on your site, and place the download link there.
  • Setup automation to email the file link to the user's email.
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Download CMS-stored file on form submit

Download CMS-stored file

This directly accesses the CMS-stored file after form submit. In this approach, many file types such as PDFs will be displayed by most browsers, rather than downloaded.

  • Link is in the "hidden link".
  • Javascript applies that link to the form as the redirect-after-submit setting.
Hidden File Download Link to CMS-stored File
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Download CMS-linked file

This directly accesses the CMS-linked file after form submit. Here the file linked can be on a service like Dropbox or Google Drive, which use a mimetype that will force download rather than display.

  • Link is in the "hidden link".
  • Javascript applies that link to the form as the redirect-after-submit setting.

Hidden File Download Link to External File
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Video hosted on Dropbox

You can host video on Dropbox.

Note there may be a delay before the file downloads enough to play.

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Audio hosted on Dropbox

You can host audio on Dropbox.

Note there may be a delay before the file downloads enough to play.

Custom Code for the Download CMS File Feature

See the Pen Untitled by Michael Wells (@memetican) on CodePen.