Question

This is HTML link to google:

<a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a>

And it work fine

This is a link to my local file:

<a href="file:///C:/myhtml.html">Local</a>

And its not working, why?

If this is some sort of security issue, so how can I work around it? It’s just for my own testing.

Answer 1

This sort of link to a local file will work in some browsers as long as the HTML is also called from a local file. If not, it’s a security vulnerability. It won’t work at all in webkit based browsers.

See <A>nchor Link to Local File? (<a href='file:///{path}'>DEAD LINK</a> not working in FireFox but in IE)

And Cross-browser link to file on local system