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Ketan Deopujari
Ketan Deopujari

Reputation: 113

Anchor tag issue in Firefox

I have an HTML file which contains anchor tag with the link to another HTML file. When I click on the link in firefox, its not opening the other HTML file. Please refer the below HTML snippet:

<html>
<body>
    <table align=left border=1>
        <tr><th>Report Name</th></tr>
        <tr><td><a href="G:\parent directory\Report\Forms Report Summary_2015-08-25 102050.html" target=report_page>Missing Forms Report</a></td></tr>
    </table>
</body>

The issue is that when the link in "href" is clicked and opened in new Firefox window inseted of "G" (capital letter) "g"(small letter) is displayed in Firefox and I get error page not displayed. I am strugggling to understand why Firefox is taking the "G" in caps as small letter "g". Can someone please help me out here?

However, when I open the same link in Chrome or IE its opening fine.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1050

Answers (1)

Marc
Marc

Reputation: 2859

The specifications of anchors expect a valid uri with a protocol as href: i.e file, ftp, and mailto or an url fragment #

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#attr-href

In your example it think you need the file

This should work in your case: (check also to escape it, some browsers do strange different things)

<a href="file:///G:\parent directory\Report\Forms Report Summary_2015-08-25 102050.html" target=report_page>Missing Forms Report</a>

Upvotes: 2

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