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leora
leora

Reputation: 196499

is there anyway to force a link to open up in IE, even if not the default browser

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 

 <a href= "">My Link</a>

force open up in internet explorer ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2828

Answers (3)

David Wimbley
David Wimbley

Reputation: 1

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.

Upvotes: 0

hemme
hemme

Reputation: 1652

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.

Upvotes: 3

Unicron
Unicron

Reputation: 7456

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.

Upvotes: 0

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