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Gary C.36
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10 years ago
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Has Dropbox changed how html files are shared?

Last week I could use the public link to an html file in my browser and it would display. As of today, every browser I have on both Mac OS and Windows now gives a pop window asking what to do with th...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    10 years ago

    Yes. As per emails HTML stopped being rendered/displayed on the 1st of October. After that they would download only for free users. Paying users have until Sept. 2017

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Rich
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9 years ago
clauclau wrote:

because links to shared files do not work as html <img> tags so they can not "serve" an image to be displayed in a web page, the way it used to be  by means of the Old Public folder.

Sure they can. The image below is from a share link in my account. You just need to change the ?dl=0 at the end of the link to ?raw=1 before you can use it in an IMG tag. You can find the documentation on that here.

 

 

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gskeesee
New member | Level 2
9 years ago
I do not need to share images. I need to share full HTML files - as in web hosting my Storyline courses.
  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
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    9 years ago
    gskeesee wrote:
    I need to share full HTML files - as in web hosting my Storyline courses.

    Then you'll need to find a web host. Dropbox is not a web host and can no longer host HTML files in that manner. You can share them as individual files, but it will not render them in a browser. For that you'll need a proper web host, which Dropbox was never intended to serve as.

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