href - Hypertext reference... Minus the hypertext....

[khanza]

Well, I'm doing an intranet site for a local company, and it includes links to files on other servers.....

I used the code

<a href="\\servername\path\filename.doc">Click here</a>

It doesn't work. When I hover my mouse over the link it shows the url at the bottom and on the links that don't work it says

http://servername/path/filename.doc

And on the ones that does work it says
File:\\servername/path/filename.doc

This leads me to believe that the href was the wrong tag, even more so since href stands for hypertext reference.... So how do I do a reference without the hypertext?

How do I fix it?


Thanks!
Alex

 

[DaRNCaT]

Use File
<a href="file://servername/path/filename.doc">here</a>
like so.

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[khanza]

DOH! I knew that.... lol, i feel so stupid now, sorry!