How to make a html button open a html file

HTML & CSS
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so im using a notepad to use html and i wanted to know how to make a button that will open a file i want.

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Welcome to the forums, @groommic000

How far have you got with this?

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game web

choose your game

<a href="https://simple-education.xyz/books.html?notebook=kirka" target="popup" onclick="window.open('https://simple-education.xyz/books.html?notebook=kirka','name','width=600,height=400')">gameweb</a>
<hr />
 <body style="background-color:grey;">
<a href="https://jcw87.github.io/c2-sans-fight/index.html" target="popup" onclick="window.open('https://jcw87.github.io/c2-sans-fight/index.html','name','width=600,height=400')">sans game window</a>
<hr />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/" target="popup" onclick="window.open('https://www.youtube.com/','name','width=600,height=400')">yt</a>

this is what i got so far as u an see the leaks opens to where i want it to go but i also want to add a button that will open a file i want to use this to open a proxy file but all i want to know is how to make it open a file

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idk if u reply or not but it did not show up i did get a notifi but did not show up just wanted to tell u

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You probably received a notification of a reply but it was a spam post and has been deleted.

If you want to make your <a> link look like a button, you need to apply styles to the <a> element itself.

Your <body> tag belongs at the beginning, but without the background-color applied.

This article might help some.

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but how do u make it to where when u click the button it will open a file ik the other way

<form action="/action_page.php">
  <label for="myfile">Select a file:</label>
  <input type="file" id="myfile" name="myfile"><br><br>
  <input type="submit">
</form>

but for some reason it won’t work it says file move or deleted

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A form won’t do anything without some server-side scripting.

What kind of file are you trying to open?

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You cannot open a file from your harddisk. You can choose a file from your harddisk, which will then be send to a server for example. But you cannot execute this file or do other things with it.

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