Let`s say in my web page i have a tag like this



this will mean that when the user clicks pic.gif, it wil change to image.gif from www.somewebsite.com

Now let`s say i change it to something like this



As u can see, the new picture is now from the local machine. I tried this. It does not work. How come i cannot change the image to a picture from the local machine. More importantly, Is this even possible to do this at all?

Oh btw, if u do something like this,



it wil work. So it seems that only the initial image can be from the local machine huh

Why are you using local drive names and paths in your HTML? It's bad bad bad bad bad practice.

haha...i know i`s bad. but it was done during the testing phase of the application. I not i wouldn`t hv noticed the behaviour. So now the question is how come the browser doesn`t know how to retrive the image from the local drive......

It can, but it won't because of the browser security policies. Check your Internet Explorer settings - you might get it to work after twiddling with it. Proceed with caution.