Hi Joe!

The reason you're getting that prompt is because that syntax is saying to
open an ".odt" file and you have not yet told Firefox how to handle the
".odt" extension. You can do that in your browser settings. If you were to
change the syntax to have ".txt" the browser would just display it online,
with no prompt.

I'm not familiar with the "=file:" part, and suspect that might be specific
to FF. Try this and let me know if it works for you?

<a href="/home/joe/data/SOMEFILE.txt">notes</a>

Thanks,
Alex.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+


On Dec 30, 2017 13:01, <joe@actionline.com> wrote:

I have an html menu with a list of tasks that open
various documents both online and on my local system.
Most of the tasks in the list open html documents,
but one of the tasks looks like this:

<a href=file:/home/joe/data/notes.odt>notes</a>

When I click on "notes" (using Firefox) a dialog pops up
that reads: "What should Firefox do with this file?"
(*) Open with LibreOffice Writer (default)
( ) Save File
[ ] do this automatically for files like this.

Two questions:
(1) What actions and what syntax could I use to open a plain text
document with 'kwrite' (the text editor that I use most often)?

(2) How can I get this to work with the Chrome browser, also?
(It only works with Firefox now.)



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