Quick HTML Question

[Butters]

I've seen this done before but not sure how as I've never needed to know, but now I do

Click on an icon within a webpage and it will open an application, be it Word, Excel, etc.

Can someone give me some pointers?

 

[Flanders]

You could simple link to a .xls/.doc file within your page, like so:

<a href="../your/dir/file.xls" title="Excel Doc"><img src="../your/dir/icon.gif" alt="Icon for Excel" /></a>

Depending on the users local settings, this would bring up the dialog "Open/Save As" etc, off the top of my head I'm not sure whether it would open the program directly, worth a shot though.

Hope that helps.

 

[Butters]

Thats the thing. I don't want to link to a file as such, just the application. So when they click on the link it will open a blank word doc, etc.

 

[Flanders]

No idea about that then sorry. If push comes to shove, use the above method and link to a blank doc. I'm sure someone will be able to shed some light on it for you though.

 

[unwashed potato!]

No idea about that then sorry. If push comes to shove, use the above method and link to a blank doc. I'm sure someone will be able to shed some light on it for you though.

think this is the best route, just save a blank document and then link to that

 

[Butters]

ok, got it working.

What I've done is make a shortcut to word, etc from within my local root. This is a .ink file and I've called it word.ink.

Then just done this

<a href="links/Word.lnk"><img src="images/word.gif" border="0"></a>Microsoft Word<br>(Word Processor)

 

[Flanders]

Is this for internet or intranet use?

 

[Butters]

well, looks like intranet use lol

 

[meghatronic]

The best way is is to create a new .doc file, and "open" that. As said above.

Unless of course you can convince the browser to scan the computer/registry to find office installations