links to local files in Firefox

works in MSIE, not in FF

[ringsoft]

Hi

I'm working on an intranet page, and the client wants it to have links to internal documents, ie documents stored on their own server. I've coded the links like this -

<a href="file:\\P:\test.doc" target="_blank" title="Letter template">Letter</a>

and in MSIE, sure enough, it opens a new MS Word window and loads the document - exactly what is wanted.

In Firefox, however, this doesn't happen. Instead I get an error message whish suggests to me that FF is getting the path confused - I think it is treating the path as relative to the web page, rather than as an absolute path.

Actually, it has just occured to me - could this be because I'm testing this on a local machine, rather than on a web server?

Any thoughts welcome.

[BlobFisk]

Try using three forward-slashes (/) after file and using forward-slashes in general:

file:[b]///[/b]P:[b]/[/b]test.doc

This should work in all browsers.

HTH

[ringsoft]

Wow, not only was that response fast, it works as well!

Many thanks, much appreciated Sir.