Github open html file in browser

It's really easy to do with github pages, it's just a bit weird the first time you do it. Sorta like the first time you had to juggle 3 kittens while learning to knit. (OK, it's not all that bad)

You need a gh-pages branch:

Basically github.com looks for a gh-pages branch of the repository. It will serve all HTML pages it finds in here as normal HTML directly to the browser.

How do I get this gh-pages branch?

Easy. Just create a branch of your github repo called gh-pages. Specify --orphan when you create this branch, as you don't actually want to merge this branch back into your github branch, you just want a branch that contains your HTML resources.

$ git checkout --orphan gh-pages

What about all the other gunk in my repo, how does that fit in to it?

Nah, you can just go ahead and delete it. And it's safe to do now, because you've been paying attention and created an orphan branch which can't be merged back into your main branch and remove all your code.

I've created the branch, now what?

You need to push this branch up to github.com, so that their automation can kick in and start hosting these pages for you.

git push -u origin gh-pages

But.. My HTML is still not being served!

It takes a few minutes for github to index these branches and fire up the required infrastructure to serve up the content. Up to 10 minutes according to github.

The steps layed out by github.com

https://help.github.com/articles/creating-project-pages-manually

GitHub & BitBucket HTML Preview

Many GitHub repositories don't use GitHub Pages to host their HTML files. GitHub & BitBucket HTML Preview allows you to render those files without cloning or downloading whole repositories. It is a client-side solution using a CORS proxy to fetch assets.

If you try to open raw version of any HTML, CSS or JS file in a web browser directly from GitHub, all you will see is a source code. GitHub forces them to use the "text/plain" content-type, so they cannot be interpreted. This script overrides it by using a CORS proxy.

Usage

In order to use it, just prepend this fragment to the URL of any HTML file: https://htmlpreview.github.io/? e.g.:

  • https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/gh-pages/2.3.2/index.html
  • https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/blob/master/examples/todos/index.html

What it does is: load HTML using CORS proxy, then process all links, frames, scripts and styles, and load each of them using CORS proxy, so they can be evaluated by the browser.

GitHub & BitBucket HTML Preview was tested under the latest Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

License

© 2019 Jerzy Głowacki under Apache License 2.0.

1- GitHub's Html file

You have html files or static files such as css, javascript in the repository of GitHub. Visit http://github.com, you can view only the source code of these files. The question is "How do you do to view these files directly from the browser?".

For example, this is a html file viewed on the GitHub ​​​​​​​by you:

Github open html file in browser

The path structure of the above file is similar to the following:



https://github.com/{username}/{repo_name}/blob/master/{file_name}

# Example:

https://github.com/o7planning/webexamples/blob/master/index.html

To view these files directly on the browser, copy the links of the files in the GitHub and edit them as follows:

Github open html file in browser

Github open html file in browser

Important note: This Wiki page is edited by participants of the EOWG. It does not necessarily represent consensus and it may have incorrect information or information that is not supported by other Working Group participants, WAI, or W3C. It may also have some very useful information.

From Education & Outreach

This only works for HTML files, unfortunately.

  • Go to the Pull Request or Commit you want to preview
  • Go to the “files changed” tab and click on the file you want to preview (index.html)
  • Select “view” on the right
  • Copy the url
  • Paste the url into https://raw.githack.com
  • Use the “url in production” url to see the rendered version

How do I run a GitHub HTML file in a browser?

Preview files on GitHub.
Go to the Pull Request or Commit you want to preview..
Go to the “files changed” tab and click on the file you want to preview (index.html).
Select “view” on the right..
Copy the url..
Use the “url in production” url to see the rendered version..

Can you open HTML file on GitHub?

1- GitHub's Html file You have html files or static files such as css, javascript in the repository of GitHub. Visit http://github.com, you can view only the source code of these files.

How do I open my browser code in GitHub?

Go to any GitHub repository and then press the dot key on your keyboard. Visual Studio Code will appear in your browser. It will load your entire repository and you can open any file from it. You have your entire source code with syntax highlighting and coloring.

Can you put HTML on GitHub?

Wherever HTML is rendered on GitHub (gists, README files in repos, comments on issues and pull requests, ...) you can use any of the HTML elements that GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) provides syntactic sugar for.