I am trying to use jquery fileDownload but it's showing 'offsetParent is not set -- cannot scroll' error in firebug.

Here is my code. It's simple.

$.fileDownload("/TmpFiles/Test.pdf")
                            .done(function () { alert('File download a success!'); })
                            .fail(function () { alert('File download failed!'); });

Can anyone help me to fix the issue?

I am trying to use jquery fileDownload but it's showing 'offsetParent is not set -- cannot scroll' error in firebug.

Here is my code. It's simple.

$.fileDownload("/TmpFiles/Test.pdf")
                            .done(function () { alert('File download a success!'); })
                            .fail(function () { alert('File download failed!'); });

Can anyone help me to fix the issue?

• javascript
• jquery

• That error must be ing from other script check the line number of errror and find post the respective code too. this seems to be correct. – Jai Commented Jul 9, 2014 at 10:34
• Jai, the problem is it doesn't even show which line/which file. In firebug it juz show that 'offsetParent is not set -- cannot scroll' – Soe Moe Thu Commented Jul 9, 2014 at 10:46

1 Answer 1

I had the same issue. The inline PDF viewer causing this error, so what I did is to force the apache to download the PDF file. So far I figured out this solution with .htaccess file:

<FilesMatch "\.(pdf)$">
    <ifModule mod_headers.c>
        Header set Content-disposition "attachment"
    </ifModule>
</FilesMatch>

In your example, you need to place the .htaccess file in the /TmpFiles/ directory to apply the rule to the *.pdf files.