As Stephen said: no.
With the short answer out of the way, and excluding the complicated overhead 
to setup such an environment just for that, your question begs another 
question:
What are you trying to accomplishing?
I looks to me more like you are asking the wrong (and probably confused) 
question than having an esotheric problem.   :)
ET 


Stephen Partington writes: 

> HTML? no. Javascript? possible. Most of the web is really designed to not
> allow this. There are some powerful JS writers, LibreOffice in the web and
> more. 
> 
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:16 AM Joe Lowder <joe@actionline.com> wrote: 
> 
>> Is it possible to write (the simplest possible)
>> html code that will open a text file from a simple
>> menu entry using the 'kwrite' editor ... that will
>> allow me to write and edit in a pre-named text file
>> and save the changes? 
>>
>> I do this now from the command line: 
>>
>> $ kwrite filename <E> 
>>
>> But I would like to be able to do it by simply
>> clicking on an entry in a simple html menu. 
>>
>> These attempts do not work:
>> <li><a href=file:/home/joe/notes>open notes text file</a>
>> <li><a href="exec kwrite notes">open notes with kwrite</a>
>> <li><a href="exec /usr/bin/kwrite notes">open notes with exec</a> 
>>
>> 
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> 
> Stephen
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