I am fairly new to HTML and have a file that the end users can download:
<a href="filetodownload.exe" download>Download</a>
This automatically downloads the file to the Downloads directory. However, I would like to have a dialog box that allows user to navigate to the folder of choice and download to that folder instead of the default Downloads directory.
This is not possible currently, the user can change where they want downloads from the internet to happen in their browser settings so websites can't just add files anywhere they want. The reason they are going in your downloads folder is probably because of your browser settings, you made it so that downloads always go to the downloads folder for you, some users don't have that setting selected so they get asked where they want the files to go by the browser. So, unfortunately this is not possible with the current state of html.
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I've created a very simple website in a Codecademy exercise that I'd like to upload to the Internet using Github Pages. Because you are unable to export your index.html and main.css files from Codecademy, I copy and pasted them into a word document, with the intent to get them in their proper file formats. However, I have been unable to find a source to convert these plain text files to .html and .css formats. Also, I've created an account on Github and a new repository, but the tutorial doesn't cover how to insert these two files into this repository.
How do I convert code from text in a document to .html and .css file format, and then insert these files into a Github repository? Thanks!
You don't need any special tools to convert plain text files to html or css.
You simply do it yourself as well.
Follow the steps to change .txt files to .html or .css:
Right-click on your index.txt or main.txt
Click on Rename from the list of options shown
Then it will take you to editing the file name
Navigate the cursor and delete txt
Type html in txt's place
Press Enter
Then you might receive a prompt asking if you are sure. Click on Yes/use .html whichever is appropriate for your prompt.
Voila! you have your file extension changed
Follow a similar approach to change the files to css as well
*Please note that my screenshots are from Mac OS and may look different from yours depending on the Operating system you are using
Hosting Webpages on Github:
Github pages website gives you a step by step guide with visual illustrations on how to do it.
If you are looking for a more comprehensive guide, then please refer to this page.
Seems nonsense, but after struggling a lot with Github Pages I have tested (and worked):
duplicate your first html file and rename it as index.html
drag and drop it into the /docs folder
drag and drop the remaining html files to the /docs folder (including the one you
have duplicated, of course with it´s original name)
commit changes
Goto Settings / Github pages and
Go down till “Github Pages”
Clic on the down arrow in [None] and select “main”
Clic on the down arrow in [/root] and select “/docs”
Clic on [Save]
After a few minutes you will see in [Settings] / “Github Pages”
Your site is published at
https://your_account_name.github.io/your_repo_name/
I had a bunch of HTML files in a folder. I opened them with Google Chrome to see how they looked. When I went back to the folder of all of the HTML files, they are all changed to Chrome HTML Document. How do I change them back to just regular HTML documents?
If you are using windows you can go to the 'Default Programs' section of the control panel and choose 'Set Associations' to change the default application for .html files to be associated with your preferred program (notepad++, dreamweaver, etc.).
They're still HTML files. What has changed is that Google Chrome has been set as the default application for opening files with the .html extension, and the description for those filetypes has been set as 'Chrome HTML document'.
I am trying to index the file folders on my local computer using a html file. I set hyperlinks to the folders, when click the link, the internet browser (firefox in my case) lists the files contained in the folder. However, is it possible to open the file browser (linux) when click the link, rather than listing the files within the internet browser?
I do not believe this is possible because HTML controls web objects and wouldn't be able to open and search a path in a file browser. For that has to do with the physical computers file system not the internet.
If you need to me explain more just let me know
I have some PDF's sitting in a folder on my computer, is there a way to write a link to open them on to a webpage?
The main idea is when the site goes live the link will be used to download the pdfs from the folder, but obviously at a later stage the folder will be a temp folder on my website.
So at the moment i just want to open the pdfs from a link, and the final goal will be to have the links download them.
Can any one help me?
This is the file path to get to the pdf i want to link to.
C:\Users\Shaun\Documents\FormValue\CS1.pdf
How would i create the link?
If you want to have a link to a PDF, you just have to put the relative path to the file in the href attribute of an a tag. So let's say you had a folder called pdfs, with the file boom.pdf inside it, and folder called site sitting beside it, with the file site.html in it. Then all you'd have to do is put this link in the html file:
Link to a pdf
In most (all?) browsers now a days, that will open the PDF in a new tab. To download it you would right-click it and do the Save Link As thing. Just need to get the path in href right.
UPDATE
If you want to use the full path to the file, you need to prefix it with file://. Then you just put it in the href the same as with a regular link, ending up with something like:
Link to a pdf
This should work with your set up, but if the pdf and the html files are stored near each other, relative URLs are still a good option. A little bit of Google work should show you how to write those.
For each PDF just do what I talk about here.
<object height="950" data="sample-report.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="860">
<p>It appears you don't have a PDF plugin for this browser.
No biggie... you can <a href="sample-report.pdf">click here to
download the PDF file.</a>
</p>
</object>
It works with most browsers and it degrades nicely.
It sounds like youre asking if you can put a link on a web site to a PDF sitting on your computer. You can't. The files have to be either on another web site or on your site's server.
If you are using ASP.NET, you can have the link point to a handler that accepts a query string identifying the file, either by file name or a hash of the file. Then the handler can look in the folder for a file that matches the pattern, read the file as a byte array, and then write those bytes to HttpResponse.
I have a file uploader but it's not showing the files path (so you can only upload files that are in the same folder)
How can I make it so show's the files path (desktop/something/yes/dog.swf)
It's getting more common that browsers doesn't reveal the local path where the uploaded file was selected, and this is for most purposes a good thing. If you upload a file to a site you probably don't want any excess information to be sent along, like for example your local user name.
For you as an application developer it should not make any difference. You shouldn't rely on the local path of the file for anything. If you use the local path on the server side also, you open up a horribly wide security hole. Anyone could for example upload a file with the path "c:\windows\explorer.exe", and if you save the file there you are in trouble...
If I'm reading this right, that's a client side browser issue, and not something you can set in your code.
It's also browser-specific, so we would have to know the browser version to tell how to do it on YOUR browser, and that would do nothing for other people accessing the web site via their browser.
If you want to ask how to set it on your browser, I would recommend that you ask that on the Super-User site. (See the links at the bottom of this page.)
Did you try to upload a file from another folder? I've noticed that no path is shown but it still works just fine.