html - How to open local file in browser

Question

Website has tag, where href is path to local file. For example, <a href="D:est.txt">Link</a>. It doesn't work.

How to do it right? :) It must work in IE only, other browsers are not necessary

Answer 1

Here you need to use a "file" protocol to link a file in the HTML like,

<a href="file:///D:est.txt">Link</a>

The browser may or may not open the file due to the security setting. You can click the right button and choose "copy link address" and then paste it into the browser.