content/snippets/html/s/custom-file-download-names.md
---
title: Customize the names of downloadable files
type: tip
language: html
tags: [link]
cover: hard-disk
excerpt: Learn what HTML5 attribute you can use to customize the names of your downloadable files with this quick tip.
listed: true
dateModified: 2021-06-12
---
HTML5 introduced a variety of convenient features that many of us use every day. As downloadable links aren't something I work with very often, I recently found out that you can use the `download` attribute on an `<a>` element for much more than just making it trigger a download. In fact, you can pass it a string value that will act as the name of the downloadable file, effectively allowing you to customize its name:
```html
<!-- The downloaded file will be named 'June-2020.csv' -->
<a href="/data/2020/06/report.csv" download="June-2020.csv">June 2020</a>
```