# saving an HTML page to my hard drive

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by jamesk (This site is so "educational") on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2008 20:06:00

Hi,
I have an HTML page that someone e-mailed me. I opened it, and want to save it and keep all the links working and intact. How do I go about this?
When I try saving it as a webpage, it asks me to update FireFox.
Also, can I cut and paste it in to the body of an e-mail and send it to someone else?
Thanks in advance.
James K

## Post 2 by louiano (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2008 21:27:51

hmm, no, and perhaps not. Ok, the first thing--do not save as html but rather as mht (web archive). This gives you a more compact file and takes less junk than an html file would do. If you wish to paste and send it to someone (in a way that the links work) there are a lot of different possibilities. It might work, or it might not at all. You have to view the source of the document (right click the file, then click edit) and then a word document or any other editor should open it. NOw that you have the exact source of the code, copy and paste it all. It might not work, again, it might. It dependsd on many many things. I save my pages using internet explorer for now, haven't messed with firefox in that aspect. With the mht filetype, there is only a single file and all the links and most content is active (most content because some scripts could be harmful or used as exploits when you run them from inside your computer and not from the internet).

## Post 3 by malthe (Pimply-Faced Youth) on Friday, 11-Apr-2008 10:24:13

Just a note to the above, mht includes all the images etc right? So if you can live without that, there's an option in IE to save as single html if I remember correctly
Malthe.

## Post 4 by louiano (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Friday, 11-Apr-2008 23:22:47

mht saves it all. I like it 'cause its just so portable and perhaps the easiest kind to save on. I think html by itself strips all of it.