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Thanks for the response but could someone please explain why is this normal? Why isn't this a bug? Isn't it the convention on web pages that a download button should initiate a download to a file? Any other web pages when I click a download button a save dialog pops up. Here the file displays in the browser. Isn't this error prone? I could easily get the file name wrong. It would be easy to munge the text with an accidental mouse or button press. Doesn't cutting and pasting a quarter of a meg of text stress clipboards on some systems. I'm confused. Obviously the maintainers of this site (who are clearly experienced and sophisticated web developers) think this is a good thing. What am I missing?

Hello. When you say to paste it into a new file, how exactly would I do that? I tried doing it with a text, but that didn't seem to work.

I don't know any other way to paste text into a file. What kind of file are we talkin' here?

Thanks,
Haley

Do not attempt to copy and paste.  Follow jay.blanchard’s advice and Use File->Save As. Or right-click on the link to the page and choose Save as… or Save Link As….

Jake: Ok, thanks... But then what? Are you supposed to do something with it in your script?

 I don't even know what this thing is... I thought it as a program that I needed to download,. But now I realized I only needed the link for the java tools and stuff.

It is the script. It is just a LOT of javaScript. It goes in a folder relative to your html page. It would be put on the server where your page can find it.

Jake: Oh, ok. So it's just there for reference files. I could reference to it from my own computer instead of using the link.

Some people like to include jQuery on their own site. Others like to use the CDNs that are provided. I use