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Is there a difference between html document and html file? Mark 05-15-2008
Posted by Mark on May 15, 2008, 10:05 am
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Hello

This might be an odd question. I have an Excel VBA program that
searches through a folder for any .htm or .html file, searches the
file for any 'hrefs' and prints them to the spreadsheet. For some
reason I have noticed that some of the files are HTML Documents, and
some are HTML Files, and the program is only searching through the
HTML Files. I'm not sure if there is a difference between the two.
The only thing that I can notice is that they are different icons, and
when double clicked, the HTML Document opens in IE, and the HTML File
opens in Notepad. Any ideas?

Posted by John Hosking on May 15, 2008, 10:56 am
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Mark wrote:
>
> This might be an odd question. I have an Excel VBA program that
> searches through a folder for any .htm or .html file, searches the
> file for any 'hrefs' and prints them to the spreadsheet. For some
> reason I have noticed that some of the files are HTML Documents, and
> some are HTML Files, and the program is only searching through the
> HTML Files. I'm not sure if there is a difference between the two.
> The only thing that I can notice is that they are different icons, and
> when double clicked, the HTML Document opens in IE, and the HTML File
> opens in Notepad. Any ideas?

Sounds like a matter of Microsoft Windows' file types to me, for which I
will be no help. If you get to a File Types dialog in Windows (e.g., via
Explorer in Tools-Folder Options-File Types) you will see a long list of
registered file types, many of which seem to be duplicates to us humans
but are (sometimes?) treated as discrete by the computer.

I can't explain any more than that, because I don't completely
understand the mechanism or logic of it, but that's my theory for you.

--
John
Not that I'm *bitter*...

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