Open A File Via Html Button

Question

I am looking for a way to open a file when user clicks on the open button on my website.

Basically, I want to define the path to that specific file tha

Answer 1

<a href="/filepath/file.pdf" target="_blank"><input type="button" value="Open File" /></a>

Answer 2

I have read about it in another post. Try using this:

<a href="path_to_file" download="proposed_file_name">Download</a>

Where :

path_to_file is either an absolute or relative path, proposed_file_name the filename to save to (can be blank, then defaults to the actual filename).

Hope it helps

Answer 3

Using

<input type="file" id="file" name="file" />

you can open up a file dialog. You'll have to handle this with PHP. This link: https://www.sitepoint.com/handle-file-uploads-php/ provides all the info you need. If you don't have a server to upload .php files to, you can set up a LAMP server.

Hope this helps :)