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Steve P.23
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Render HTML documents in browser

I have a number of HTML documents (intended to be private, NOT intended to be published publicly on the web) stored on dropbox. I would like to use Dropbox's storage and collaboration features to sha...
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Rich
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11 years ago

Using the Dropbox website, it will only render as HTML if you access the file using a share link (and slightly modify the share link as well). Here's an example:

Of course, when you create a share link to a file, anyone that has that link is able to access it, and anyone can share the link once they have it, so it likely doesn't fit your criteria of not being published on the web.

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