Hyperlink to a text file how to open in webform?

Question

I have a webform and I want to create a hyperlink to a text file, so that it opens on internet explorer in a new window. I have added the following

<a href="file:///D:/Test/Test.txt" id="hplTest" runat="server">testhyperlink</a>

Now when I click on the hyperlink, nothing is happening. No error. when I open a browser and type file:///D:/Test/Test.txt , the file is opening.

I would appreciate if anybody could help me out.

Answer 1

You can not give physical path in href with file:// , give the url instead.

<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/Test/Test.txt" id="hplTest" runat="server">testhyperlink</a>

If the file is within current site then use relative path.

<a href="~/Test/Test.txt" id="hplTest" runat="server">testhyperlink</a>

The ~ here is for root path.

Answer 2

The physical path is wrong in your example.
Either you can use absolute path

  <a href="http://myDomain/folder/Test.txt" id="hplTest" runat="server">testhyperlink</a>

Or you can use the relative path

<a href="~/Test.txt" id="hplTest" runat="server">testhyperlink</a>

You can also use target on anchor tag if you want to open it in a new window

<a href="~/Test.txt" id="hplTest" runat="server"  target="_blank">testhyperlink</a>

More target Detail Link of MSDN