Assuming everybody uses chrome browser;
So I am creating a wordpress blog for some friends. We use a shared network, and I want to create a link on that blog that when pressed opens up a folder in internet explorer.
The current html code is
I am using a chrome extension called "open in IE" , but to use it requires a right click then choosing an option within the menu. This process is too long and I want to simplify it.
Is there any html code I can write that make it open that file:// link using the "open in IE" extension by default? The goal is to be able to left click the link in chrome and have a window explorer open with the files in it.
Cheers
Unfortunately, targetting a specific browser to open on a clicked link is not possible.
Unless you modified some of their internal registry or used an activex plugin, it is just not a supported feature at this time.
You will most likely need to hard code some javascript.
I believe it is possible to reference installed extensions from your code using chrome.extensions.
Reference here, http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/extension.html
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I have a very simple question I could not find answer for myself: I want links in OneNote to open in Chrome.
Note that the default browser is IE and I cannot change it (not admin etc).
Tried: "chrome_path url" - didn't work. Everything I could think about didn't work.
Please provide explicit solution so that link from within OneNote opens in Chrome rather than in IE.
To note, there are multiple links, so batch file won't do in this case.
Thank you in advance!
I had a little go with testing some ideas that I had though I'm very new to OneNote. It's easy enough to open Chrome from a hyperlink:
Select text to link
Add link
Select the file icon and navigate to chrome.exe. In my instance - C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
I believe you cannot pass arguments to the exe as it is considered a security issue. This certainly used to be the case and I'm not sure if they have modified their thinking since. The only way I can think of is to create a batch file which includes your ideal website and link to the batch file:
"start chrome http://www.youtube.com"
I found two ways to do it, though neither is the perfect:
There is a 3rd party OneNote add-on which adds more browsers in the right-click menu. Though it is not free and maybe can't be installed on restricted computers.
It works only on OneNote docs which are saved onto Onedrive. Open the OneNote page which has the links right in the Chrome, not in the desktop app. Then any links you click will open in the same browser. You can get the address of the OneNote page by clicking on 'Copy Link to Page' in OneNote app, then paste it to a notepad. Copy the first url to Chrome's address bar.
For those who has admin right, this problem can be solved by following Make Chrome your default browser. It is set at machine level, not onenote level.
I made a button for a PDF download that is working well in Chrome but it doesn´t open in Mozilla.
This is the code I used:
<a target="_blank" href="http://gerster.com/docs/posamenten_neuheiten_2014_2.pdf">Jetzt PDF-Katalog herunterladen</a>
What could be wrong?
Note: No error is showing up.
Q Using window.open or "target=" such as blank it doesn´t open in ### Browser
What could be wrong?
It is up to each user to download or permit binary.PDF running in a browser viewport after download, this is especially true after download fron any non trusted site.
OOB many browsers assume they can sandbox the PDF download and then allow as default action review of the PDF file. Chromeium based browsers like Edge may be more inclined to use that before the user improves their security.
So the 1st task for a user should be to switch off Edge auto viewing of PDFs and switch to a more secure setting.
In that case Edge / Chrome and other browsers will NOT auto run the downloaded PDF but ask the user if they wish to View after Download or simply Download.
One of the possible values of that attribute is _blank, which tells the browser to open a new window (or tab, if that’s the user’s preference) when that link is clicked.
This used to be “invalid” in HTML
see A Bad Reason: The link is to a PDF
If you are going to do it, not only do you need the target attribute for the functionality, you need to rel attribute for security.
So do not open yourserver to security issues blacklist or pop-up blocking see https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/
Don’t use target=_blank (or any other target that opens a new navigation context), especially for links in user-generated content, unless you have a good reason
I am writing following program :
***import os
filepath=r'C:\TestData\openfolder.html'
abc=open(filepath,'w')
abc.writelines('<html><head></head><body>')
abc.writelines('First Link\n')
abc.writelines('</body></html>')***
What I want to do is if I click First Link on a browser, I should be able to open the folder having path as "Filepath". os.startfile works perfect for opening a folder but I don't know how to implement this inside some link.
Thanks.
Try to use URI with file: scheme like file:///C:/TestData/openfolder.html in your html:
Link to test data
Here is article on using file URIs in Windows.
UPD (extraction from comments): Each browser has its own way to handle such urls. At least Internet Explorer 8 under Windows 7 opens links in Windows Explorer as was required by jags.
Finally, for dynamic pages the web server is required. If one is needed take a look at discussion on creating simple web services using python.
You can't. Clicking a link to a file in a browser will not launch the application associated with that file type on the OS. You can apparently do some funky stuff with JavaScript to launch particular filetypes with particular applications (see here: http://forums.devshed.com/asp-programming-51/launching-ms-word-to-open-file-from-a-hyperlink-55714.html) but apart from that the web browser is not the file browser.
Link Text
Replace FOLDER_PATH with the path of the folder you want to open in explorer.
Alain's answer works.
<'a href="FOLDER_PATH" target="_explorer.exe">Link Text<'/a>
I removed the tick marks at the beginning and end, and found that it works in
Internet Explorer - opens a Windows Explorer window
Firefox (Windows and Linux), but opens a new tab - same as target="_blank"
Chrome - opens a new tab like Firefox
I also noticed that / and \ (forward and backward slashes) are equal in html links - they can even be mixed.
we have a website with links to a sharepoint. These features in sharepoint only work in IE so i dont want to open up firefox or chrome if that is the default browser. Is there anyway to have a
My Link
force open up in internet explorer ?
You can use javascript to inject the link in your HTML code if the client is IE, and maybe show a warning message if the browser isn't IE. Anyway you can't tell any browser to open a link using another browser.
No, definitely not.
For Firefox users, the best thing that comes to mind is to have them install the IE tab. It allows the opening of pages inside Firefox but using the IE engine - but also requires user action.
If this is run in a windows environment, you could use a PHP script to open Internet Explorer through PHPs support for COM objects.
If you are interested I can provide the script to do this.
For testing
I don't want to upload CSS to FTP on each change until the site is complete, but the site and content is online. (I'm not talking about saving page locally then apply CSS)
Can I just apply the CSS locally to any online page?
It would be easier to edit and see changes locally until the CSS work is done.
I want to see the applied effect on Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Is this at all possible?
http://getfirebug.com/firebuglite
I think this is the closet way
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:_7_eRIBRrhoJ:www.nealgrosskopf.com/tech/thread.php%3Fpid%3D60+http://www.nealgrosskopf.com/tech/thread.php%3Fpid%3D60&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=in&client=firefox-a
but only for firefox
Edit : 29 April 2010
I found another better way
http://www.tomjewett.com/accessibility/508-eval-tools.html
In FireFox, from the Web Developer toolbar, select CSS -> Add User Style
Sheet, browse to wherever you stored
it and click the Open button. When you
are finished, just un-check the "Add
User Style Sheet" on the toolbar CSS
menu.
In Microsoft Internet Explorer, select Tools -> Internet Options... ->
Accessibility... and check the "Format
documents using my style sheets" box.
Using the Browse button, open the
lowvis.css style sheet from wherever
you stored it, and click OK to both
the Accessibility and the Internet
Options panels. When you are finished,
simply un-check the "...my style
sheets" box on the Accessibility
panel.
I'd use a proxy such as Charles and use its URL remapping features to divert requests for the stylesheets to local files.
Sounds like you could use version control. Try http://git-scm.com/ or http://subversion.tigris.org/ ( http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ for a non-command line version)--it does a lot more, but it would allow you to do what you want, and what else it does it sounds like you might need.
Talk to your server admin about setting one or another up.
If you have web developer toolbar then you can view the current css and edit the same and then can see the changes ....
Its available for both firfox and IE
Ie web developer toolbar for IE
and Firefox web developer toolbar for firrefox
If the site you are testing for is not facing the public so speed doesn't matter, you could set up a service like dynDNS and turn your work PC into a web server. (Caveat: It's lots of work and you need to secure it.) You could then have all your style sheets on your local computer, and have your on-line site reference them like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://jitendra.dyndns.org/styles/styles.css">