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Melissa Klug
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Nov 22, 2017

Open HTML files in browser - SharePoint Online

I'm trying to open HTML files that are saved in a Document Library created on a Team site (using Office 365 Groups). When we add HTML files to the library they will only download and then open. We wo...
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victormonasterio
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Dec 05, 2019

Melissa Klug I have done this. I uploaded the html files to  a document library.

Then I used sharepoint designer to access this document library and renamed all the html extension to aspx. If there is references with some html files to other html files sharepointdesigner will rename these references when changing the file extension to aspx. In fact, I uploaded an entire html site to document library, about 160 pages and had it working within sharepoint in 20 minutes.

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SchelleT
Copper Contributor
Dec 05, 2019

victormonasterio 

 

Hi Victor,

I am so sorry to ask, but where is SharePoint Designer?

I have screen shot the menu in SharePoint (attached) and the only thing is Design Manager, what am I missing :sad:

 

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    victormonasterio
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 05, 2019

    SchelleT Sharepoint designer is a separate application. You can download here https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=35491

     

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