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Automatically send a string in the form of a downloaded file to a browser client using new HTML5 anchor attributes.
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download_string.dart
void downloadFileToClient(String filename, String text) {
AnchorElement tempLink = document.createElement('a');
tempLink
..attributes['href'] = 'data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,${Uri.encodeComponent(text)}'
..attributes['download'] = filename
..click();
}
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