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**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 7, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/open-html-file/17567 "2003-04-07T03:07:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 13\
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**Author:**  [@maggots213](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/maggots213)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/open-html-file/17567/1 "2003-04-07T03:07:55Z")
how do i open up a html file that is stored on my harddrive? i am using the on release commans. ok , the thing is theres a button, when the user clicks on this button it will open up a html file via a new window. please help me… should i use the geturl command?
malcolm
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/open-html-file/17567/2 "2003-04-07T04:49:28Z")
[AS]on (release) {
getURL(“c: emp emp.htm”, “\_blank”)
}[/AS]
put some code like that on your button with the right path to your document.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/open-html-file/17567/3 "2003-04-07T06:23:32Z")
actually this is meant to be a CD-Rom thing so i cant use the C:\ i tried using this sentence getURL("…/temp/temp.htm") but its doesnt work on the cd
please help… anyone ??
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/open-html-file/17567/4 "2003-04-07T06:38:07Z")
use a relative path… :q:
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/open-html-file/17567/5 "2003-04-07T06:54:14Z")
im sorry, how do you mean by relative path, can you give me an example… thanks a lot i really appreciate it
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/open-html-file/17567/6 "2003-04-07T06:58:53Z")
if a file called ‘myFile.html’ is in the same folder as the swf, you can use
```auto
getURL("myFile.html", "_blank")
```
instead of going like
```auto
getURL("d:/myFile.html", "_blank")//or whatever its address would be
```
🙂
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/open-html-file/17567/7 "2003-04-07T07:17:00Z")
sorry, but what if its not gonna be in the same folder?cos theres gonna be link to many htmls in different folders
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/open-html-file/17567/8 "2003-04-07T07:27:22Z")
then you can say getURL(“folder1/folder2/myFile.html”, “\_blank”), provided that ‘folder1’ and your swf file are in the same folder 🙂
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 8:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/open-html-file/17567/9 "2003-04-07T08:15:47Z")
can it be another folder? its very confusing
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/open-html-file/17567/10 "2003-04-07T08:27:47Z")
i believe that this might work…
[AS]on (release) {
getURL(".html/myfile.html", “\_blank”)
}
[/AS]
^where html is a folder and myfile.html is the webpage
in html, I THINK, on dot is relative and two dots is absolute, so try that, if no one else answered ur question
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/open-html-file/17567/11 "2003-04-07T08:30:11Z")
i will try that thanks a million
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/open-html-file/17567/12 "2003-04-07T08:37:58Z")
holy \*\*\*\* ! it works !!! thanks aot man, i have been trying with 2 dots, didnt even know u can do it with one dots also thanks man !!!
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/open-html-file/17567/13 "2003-04-07T11:18:34Z")
hmm, 2 dots and 1 are different things man, see my other post if you didnt catch it
glad it worked
hawk