HTML link starting with "vscode:" to open a file in Visual Studio Code

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According to issue #4883 and PR #15320 you can create vscode:/ links in your HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Test</title>
</head>

<h1>Test</h1>
<a href="vscode://path/to/my/file.md">open file.md in vscode</a> 

</body>
</html>

This should have the same effect than typing following in the console:

code -g -r /path/to/my/file.md

But what I get is different:

Example page

After click:

Example page after click

And after clicking on "Open Visual Studio Code", then the application is opened (or put in the foreground) but the file is not opened.

What did I miss?

I have tried <a href="vscode:///path/to/my/file.md"> but the result is the same.

visual-studio-code hyperlink html
1 Answers

I found the solution in this answer: you need a file/ prefix before the path of your file:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Test</title>
</head>

<h1>Test</h1>
<a href="vscode://file/path/to/my/file.md">open file.md in vscode</a> 

</body>
</html>
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