How i will open the following link
<a href=file:///blablabla/folder>Open folder</a>
It is not opening on clicking the anchor.
I mean to say that if we want to access shared folder. Like from \192.168.10.1\XYZ, then.
How i will open the following link
<a href=file:///blablabla/folder>Open folder</a>
It is not opening on clicking the anchor.
I mean to say that if we want to access shared folder. Like from \192.168.10.1\XYZ, then.
I'm able to do this from windows:
Please note that most modern browsers know how to append the
file:///
prefix to something referenced on the filesystem, however, Firefox (Tested with version 3.5.6) requires it. Thus, your code should look like this for the same example:Yes, thats five (5) backslashes (\) in there.
Hope this helps,
Thanks!
The file:
works fine for me under Ubuntu 9.10 in Firefox 3.5.5 as does:
which is probably better. I suspect you may be having another issue. If you're doing this on a Windows server, you may need the drive letter as well.
Are you specifying an absolute path? For example, the following will work fine in Windows:
Note also that you missed the quotes around the folder path.