In HTML i kept button to download some file its working but in that path if that file is not exists then i need to show message?

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This Code i written to download a resume : Inside a button

onclick="window.location.href='/Uploads/Resume/1.docx'"

The file is downloading but if file not found in that path then i have to show a message Like file is not Found How can I do this

An advanced UI design should be to disable the button after checking if the link is live or not. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13310029/use-jquery-to-check-if-links-still-work http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1414365/how-to-disable-enable-an-input-with-jquery — Debajyoti Das, Jan 24 '14 at 16:44

Lightness Races in Orbit · Answer 1 · 2014-01-24T16:45:35.570

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Your web browser will already do that, as it does for any web path that returns a 404 error.

So simply let that mechanism do its job.

edited Jan 24 '14 at 16:45

answered Jan 24 '14 at 16:36

But file not found message i need to show alert message in the same page without redirecting to that particular path.. – Raj Jan 24 '14 at 16:40
@user2955331: Then you'll have to encapsulate all of this in a function that first checks, via AJAX, whether the file can be downloaded. It gets complicated. Why? – Lightness Races in Orbit Jan 24 '14 at 16:41
In our project i need to do this task..i am not having idea to show that alert message... – Raj Jan 24 '14 at 16:43
@user2955331: I'm asking _why_. Also I just gave some ideas. – Lightness Races in Orbit Jan 24 '14 at 16:45

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