Question

I’m just playing around with HTML, and wanted to create a link to access a file in a particular location on the disk (not on the disk where the source code of the web page is located).

I have tried to do the following:

<a href="D:\MyDoc.pdf">Download My File</a>

but this cannot access the file and gives an error.

What can be the problem, and how do I fix it?

Thanks!

Answer 1

This should work! Just add file:/// in the link URL

<a href="file:///D:\MyDoc.pdf">Download My File</a>

This will only work if you run the Application offline.