I am looking for a way to open a file when user clicks on the open button on my website.
Basically, I want to define the path to that specific file that I want the html button to open.
I am looking for a way to open a file when user clicks on the open button on my website.
Basically, I want to define the path to that specific file that I want the html button to open.
Share Improve this question edited Aug 22, 2016 at 9:04 worldofjr 3,8868 gold badges39 silver badges52 bronze badges asked Aug 19, 2016 at 18:19 Tanmay GoyalTanmay Goyal 311 gold badge1 silver badge2 bronze badges 1- open a file WHERE? on their device? some other site? – Marc B Commented Aug 19, 2016 at 18:20
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Reset to default 2I have read about it in another post. Try using this:
<a href="path_to_file" download="proposed_file_name">Download</a>
Where :
path_to_file is either an absolute or relative path, proposed_file_name the filename to save to (can be blank, then defaults to the actual filename).
Hope it helps
<a href="/filepath/file.pdf" target="_blank"><input type="button" value="Open File" /></a>
Using
<input type="file" id="file" name="file" />
you can open up a file dialog. You'll have to handle this with PHP. This link: https://www.sitepoint./handle-file-uploads-php/ provides all the info you need. If you don't have a server to upload .php files to, you can set up a LAMP server.
Hope this helps :)
You can use this in the button:
onclick="window.open('file_url')"