How to start default browser with a URL(with spaces and #) for a local file? Delphi

Question

I want to open a local HTML file in the default browser.

For example: Default Browser is Mozilla Firefox.

The file to be opened: C:\\My Custom Path\\New Folde

Answer 1

Unfortunately you can't do it only with ShellExecute. But there is some hack.

For example you want to open url like this:

C:\Users\User\Desktop\Some sitename with spaces.htm with the anchor #myAnchor

To make ShellExecute open file:

vS := 'file:///C:\Users\User\Desktop\Some sitename with spaces.htm#MyAnchor';
ShellExecute(0, 'OPEN', PChar(vS), '', '', SW_SHOWNORMAL);

It's Important to use "file:///" in the beginning, but ShellExecute open this page without anchor.

To open with the anchor you can dynamically create html file with content like this:

And open this dynamic file with ShellExecute.

Hope it helps.