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I have a description inside my KML for all my shapes,

And I’m trying to add a live link that represents the shape location on our network

So I can just click on the link and open the location for the specific shape,

Im using the following html tag [as an example]

   <tr>
    <td>Link:</td>
    <td><a> href="C:\Users\Name\Downloads"></a></td>
  </tr>

This shows the link but without the hyperlink beneath it,

Does anyone know why?

user2333346
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Remove the closing angle bracket from the a element opener. You have invalid html markup right there. 

 <tr>
    <td>Link:</td>
    <td><a> href="C:\Users\Name\Downloads"></a></td>
  </tr>

should be:

 <tr>
    <td>Link:</td>
    <td><a href="C:\Users\Name\Downloads" target="_blank">C:\Users\Name\Downloads</a></td>
  </tr>

To stop the link opening inside the ongowindow try using target="_blank"

ChrisSwires
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  • When i do that, even the text "C:\Users\Name\Downloads" disappears!! – user2333346 Jan 24 '14 at 23:37
  • That would be because I forgot to add the text in outside of the tag as geocodezip has just fixed. That's what I get for answering questions at midnight after work. Thanks geocodezip. Google-maps hero. – ChrisSwires Jan 24 '14 at 23:41
  • I checked the "allow access to local files and personal data" under Tools>Options>General. But now it tries to load it inside the description box and then crashes Google earth!! – user2333346 Jan 25 '14 at 00:39
  • Updated answer with fix. – ChrisSwires Jan 25 '14 at 09:40
  • Ok the folder does open now [which is what i want], but google earth displays an error message "An error occurred while loading this page", so its trying to open the folder inside google earth too, – user2333346 Jan 25 '14 at 15:50
  • I had to check: Tools>options>General>Display>Show web results in external browser And now its working – user2333346 Jan 27 '14 at 20:41