View html files in SharePoint 2021

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View html files in SharePoint 2021

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I need to be able to view and share content I develop as an html file on SharePoint. The Modern Script Editor tool is not available in my organization's SharePoint, and converting the html to .aspx file does not do the trick either.

Can someone please suggest a way forward? I have an example html file here. https://www.dropbox.com/s/qwqrjttr28u25s3/example-dashboard.html?dl=0

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RaytheonXie_MSFT 40,471 Microsoft External Staff

Hi @ap ,
I will recommend Content Editor. Upload the html file to a document library first. Then we need to create a wiki page. Creating Content Editor and paste the html file url like following pic

Click Apply and save the page.

The contents of the HTML file is now displayed on the SharePoint page. You'll need to create an apsx page in this manner for each static HTML page.

The main issue with this approach is that an .aspx file is needed to display the contents of each SharePoint HTML file. The main advantage is that it is easier to upload a HTML file to a document library than it is to upload HTML to the Site Pages library as a wiki page, and the HTML is not garbled or deleted by the SharePoint HTML cleaner. It also easily allows running JavaScript on the HTML page which is harder to do with Site Page conten

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RaytheonXie_MSFT 40,471 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-12-13T03:02:20.333+00:00

Hi @ap ,
I am checking to see if the problem has been resolved.
RaytheonXie_MSFT 40,471 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-12-16T08:56:57.14+00:00

Hi @ap ,
If there's anything you'd like to know, don't hesitate to ask.
ap 1 Reputation point

2021-12-16T20:02:30.897+00:00

Thank you for the answer and for following up. I am working with my IT staff to get access to the content folder and it is taking some time. I will be sure to post back on here when I have a result.
RaytheonXie_MSFT 40,471 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-12-21T05:45:30.34+00:00

Hi @ap ,
Have you tried the solution I proposed?

If you have any questions or progress, you can contact me in time.

Looking forward to your reply

Have a lucky day!

Thanks,
Raytheon Xie
Wendy Li_MSFT 1,711 Reputation points Moderator

2021-12-29T08:33:39.577+00:00

@ap Have you tried Raytheon's suggestion? If you have any concerns or questions about this thread, please feel free to reply.
ap 1 Reputation point

2022-01-03T15:44:01.72+00:00

This unfortunately did not work. When trying to add the link to the html file (from OneDrive) this way, the message:

Cannot retrieve the URL specified in the Content Link property. For more assistance, contact your site administrator.

I was working with the site administrator at the time who had full permissions.

Thanks for any further suggestions.
RaytheonXie_MSFT 40,471 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2022-01-05T08:07:56.66+00:00

Hi @ap ,
It seems your Content Editor is disabled too. You can follow the steps to enable it.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/sharepoint-online-users-cannot-see-content-editor/3f944f7f-d91d-4493-ab34-119e93a354db
ap 1 Reputation point

2022-01-05T16:02:01.87+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. I will let my IT admin know and will post here when I get a result.
ap 1 Reputation point

2022-01-06T18:36:18.47+00:00

Hi @RaytheonXie_MSFT ,
My site admin enabled Content Editor for me and unfortunately I get the same result.
"Cannot retrieve the URL specified in the Content Link property. For more assistance, contact your site administrator."

Is there another permission setting somewhere we may have missed?
RaytheonXie_MSFT 40,471 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2022-01-07T05:45:18.287+00:00

Hi @ap ,
You need to upload your html file to sharepoint library and copy the relative path of the HTML file. The relative URL starts just after the server's URL. So something like this: /sites/demosite/yourLibrary/yourFile.html
ap 1 Reputation point

2022-01-10T23:01:10.5+00:00

Hi @RaytheonXie_MSFT ,

I do believe the file is already on the sharepoint library, although I don't know how to get such a clean file path name. For example my file path is (with critical info removed):

https://myorg.sharepoint.com/teams/myTeam/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?id=%2Fteams%2FmyTeam%2FShared%20Documents%20Dashboard%2Fexample%2Ddashboard%2Ehtml

I don't think this is what you were suggesting, but I also tried to upload the html file to the Content and Media/Content Editor using the "Upload a Web Part" and recieved the message: The file you imported is not valid. Verify that the file is a Web Part description file (*.webpart or *.dwp) and that it contains well-formed XML. Again I don't think that was what you were suggesting, but I thought I'd let you know I tried it.

Thanks
ap 1 Reputation point

2022-01-10T23:10:47.14+00:00

I should also mention that I pieced the above URL together to try and get html at the end. If I were to use the code provided when selecting "copy link" the URL would be something like: myorg.sharepoint.com/teams/myTeam/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?guestaccesstoken=ikKBpb... I think the most important thing the above URL shows is that I am in the "Sharepoint library." (or you can correct me if I am wrong)

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