Newbie needs a little help with HTML

Noelie

Hi guys I writing a little html page for my team in work, its nothing overly complicated but i'm having a little trouble with it working in FF.

I'm linking to folders on the network using this code
<a href="\\project\Help\Project info" target="_blank">Project Information</a>
for IE it open the folder in a new window.
however for FF it just open a new browser, i guess its just recognising the target="_blank" part. what am i missing to make the link work.

I had a similar problem with opening files and found i had to add "file:" to the link, is there a similarcommand for folders.

Thanks for any help.

Gordon

It opens on IE in a new window and on FF in a new browser? What's the problem?! Or do you mean that it opens the browser with no content? Maybe it's the space between project and info that you have. Try <a href="\\project\Help\Project%20info" target="_blank">Project Information</a> instead. Iirc %20 means - space.

Noelie

Hi Gordon

when the firefox browser opens it is blank, and i would like it to open in a explorer window rather than the browser so you can access whatever folder you want.

I tried changing the space to %20, but it didn't work. also i tried added a trailing slash to it.

wheres me jumpa

So basically you want a list of files in that directory to display in a new window?

Gordon

Hmm, I got a folder to open on FF there by this code:

<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/etcetc">click</a>

If you aren't sure what to do just drag the folder onto a fresh FF window Noelie.

Noelie

Hi Guys,

Yeah that works, it works with or with the "file:" it just needs the three leading slashs.
But it still isn't quite the way i want it to work, I'd prefer an Explorer Window to open rather than a file list in the browser, this is the way it's working with IE.

Gordon

Ah right, drag and drop type stuff? I seem to recall that there may be an addon for FF for that but I could be wrong.

Noelie

Thanks Again Gordon.

obrienb

use

target="_new"

instead of _blank