How do I preview my web page in the correct browser?

[Kevin]

When I hit preview web page, for some reason it launches my windows media
player. How do I get it to preview in Internet Explorer...THANKS!!

 

[DavidF]

Kevin, Perhaps you can try this. Save your HTML files to a older on your
hard drive where you can find them. Open Windows Explorer and browse to and
select your index.html file. Right click the file > Open With - Choose
Program > select Internet Explorer and tick the box 'Always use the selected
program to open this kind of file'.

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

Whoops...probably will work better if you save to a 'folder', not an
'older'...that's my excuse, and I am sticking to it.

DavidF

 

[Kevin]

Thanks for the reply. If I save as an .html file that will work fine, but my
real question is why when i hit "preview your web site" on the left hand
margin, it is sent to windows media player instead of internet explorer. I am
assuming this is a preference or option inside publisher where you can choose
what program previews the site. If I save as a .pub file it will open up in
publisher, if I save as an .html file I'm sure it will open up in Internet
explorer, but for some reason when i hit preview inside the publisher program
it goes to Windows Media Player. Hopefully you know what I am talking
about....Thanks again for the help.

 

[DavidF]

The point is that somehow you have changed the file association for
index.html to open in the media player. The instructions I gave should
change the association back to IE. Did you actually try the instructions?

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

Another test you can do is once you generate your html files, and save them
to your hard drive, and browse to the index.html file, then try double
clicking on that file and see what program opens it. If it is the Media
Player, then my suspicions about the file association is correct.

Your web preview is supposed to open with your default browser. Are you
using a different browser such as Firefox? If so you may need to set IE as
your default browser.

Let us know if it works out...

DavidF

 

[Kevin]

David-

I didn't understand what you were trying to say at first and that was due to
a lack of knowledge/experience on my part. Your solution worked perfectly. It
was a file association issue, because I used Internet Explorer as my default
browser. Any ideas on what may have caused a changed for .pub or .html
files?? Thanks again for the time....

 

[DavidF]

Kevin,

That's good news. Thanks for the feedback. As to why? I don't know, but
perhaps you recently downloaded and installed a new version of the Media
Player, and in the process it became the default app for html files. Just
glad the solution worked...

DavidF