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Remove the Open button from the File Download dialog box in Internet Explorer

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I casually discovered that you can easily avoid to display the Open button shown by the File Download dialog box in Microsoft Internet Explorer by placing the following tag in your web page:

<head>
  <META name="DownloadOptions" content="noopen">
</head>

It works only with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and later.

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  • Anonymous
    November 11, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2010
    This little had bit of information actually turned out to be ridiculously useful, so thx for sharing!!!

  • Anonymous
    October 17, 2010
    Thanks for the information. This is what I was looking for.

  • Anonymous
    April 20, 2011
    ridiculously simple, and extremely useful thanks......