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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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MothraMoon
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Jun 28, 2019
Kim Rushbrooke wrote:

MothraMoon 

Hello, I was wondering if you found a solution to the problem of not being able to run a web page using (index) files in the browser?

Thank you


No.  It is positively the most frustrating, MADDENING experience of my entire life.  Usually I can figure this stuff out eventually.  However, I am beginning to think that THIS IS MY WATERLOO!!!!!!

 

I have noticed the pages absolutely do not open in IE.  However in Chrome and Firefox they did minus the graphic images (broken links).  It's a series of pages connected by having the user click "Next" to take them to the next page of a tutorial.  It works fine everywhere on the planet....including the old SharePoint site where it was stored for 7 years.  That came to an abrupt end (no one giving me any advance warning whatsoever).  So now I am undergoing a CRASH PANIC COURSE in how to fix this.

 

Where I am at now is that my I have to put the Long Path in so instead of 001printref.gif I have to do something like:

 

For the image

IMG src="https://MYSCHOOL.sharepoint.com/sites/Testing123/Web%20Pages/001printref.GIF
 
For the Style Sheet
https://MYSCHOOL.sharepoint.com/sites/Testing123/Web%20Pages/scmaster.css
 
So far so good.
 
Then, for the link to the next page in the tutorial, instead of 002printref.html
I put the long file path in like this:
https://MYSCHOOL.sharepoint.com/sites/Testing123/Web%20Pages/002printref.html
 
However, instead of taking me to that next page, it downloads a copy of the page into my downloads folder on my C: drive.
 
Is there a way to make this stop??  Do I have to be an administrator to do it (like Powershell)?? 
 
WTF????????????? Am I the only person on this planet who has this problem?  You would think.
 
BTW, I am using SharePoint Online in Office 365.  I have read that there is no fix for this. But I just refuse to believe it. I don't have any Java in my web pages and there is no real classified information contained within.  It is just bogus.
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Kim Rushbrooke
Copper Contributor
Jun 30, 2019

MothraMoon 

 

Well you obviously have far more experience 'trouble-shooting' this issue. Its a project that must now seek alternative solutions for relating to this. I was hoping to use sharepoint so our staff could access the content I have (packaged) inside a folder with an html index file, but not this.  Thank you for the response though, I appreciate your efforts, albeit without any satisfaction. Best of luck with future efforts MonthraMoon.

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