File links¶
This content element gives you the opportunity to offer downloadable files to the visitors of your website.
![Backend display of the fields for the File links in the General tab](../../_images/BackendFieldsFiles.png)
The “General” file links fields
You can add or select single files but also use a file collection. A file collection can be one of the following:
- A static selection of files
- A folder within a storage, holding the files
- A file selection by category
When combining both methods, single files and file collections, all files from these methods will be presented to the website visitor.
![Backend display of the Appearance tab for the File links](../../_images/BackendTabAppearance1.png)
The “Appearance” settings for file links
In the “Appearance” tab you will find several options how the files will be presented:
- Display file/icon/thumbnail
- In this dropdown you can select if you only want to show the file name, the file name and a corresponding icon, based on the file extension, or the file name with a thumbnail, if it is possible for TYPO3 CMS to generate a thumbnail from the file.
- Display file size information
- Will show the file size calculated from the amount of bytes and presented as a human readable string with the proper unit (B, KB, MB …).
- Display description
- Will display the description of each file, if available.
![Frontend rendering of a file, with thumbnail, description and file size set](../../_images/Frontend5.png)
Frontend output of a file, with thumbnail, description and file size set