Share an HTML file on Discord as a link

Ways to send an HTML file in chat or email

Why attaching a .html file in Discord does not work

When you drop a .html file directly into a Discord chat or send it as an attachment, Discord treats it as a file download or shows a raw code preview, not a rendered web page. On Android and iOS, tapping a downloaded HTML attachment often opens a plain text viewer showing tags instead of your layout, and if you only send the .html file, any linked CSS stylesheets, images or scripts stay behind on your computer.

When you turn an HTML file into a link, anyone in the chat can click it and view the rendered page in their browser on desktop or mobile. You can also use this method whenever you need to share an HTML file on WhatsApp, Slack or Telegram, or help someone open an HTML file on a phone without installing a file manager.

How to get a visual link preview in Discord and WhatsApp

You can publish on ship.page without an account, and anyone with the URL can open it right away while a noindex header keeps it out of search engines. If you claim your uploaded page with a free account using Google or an email link (no credit card), you can manage it from a dashboard.

A ship.page page claimed to an account that sets no preview image of its own automatically shows a screenshot of itself as the link preview in Discord, Slack, WhatsApp and Telegram. The success screen also gives you a website QR code with a PNG download for sharing in person.

Why Google Drive, Dropbox and other tools fall short

Cloud storage links no longer work for hosting HTML pages. Google Drive deprecated googledrive.com/host on August 31, 2015 and shut it down on August 31, 2016, so a shared HTML file no longer opens as a working page. Dropbox stopped rendering HTML in shared links for free accounts on October 3, 2016 (shared .html files download instead of opening), and Public folder links stopped working for Basic users on March 15, 2017 and for all users on September 1, 2017.

Netlify Drop (app.netlify.com/drop) is another drag-and-drop option that takes a folder, ZIP or single HTML file with no account needed to start, and it is a good pick if you already use Netlify for your main projects. However, a site dropped without signing in stays behind a temporary password until you claim it with a Netlify account, and Netlify's blog notes an unclaimed drop expires on its own. Netlify's Drop docs also state that deploys under 50 MB work best and single files over 10 MB may get stuck.

• ship.page free limits: 10 MB per single HTML file, 25 MB per ZIP (100 MB unpacked), 100 files per upload, 10 deploys a minute.
• Folder uploads go up as one request of at most 10 MB with the files encoded inside it (roughly 7 MB of files); zip bigger folders first.
• Static files only: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, fonts, audio, video, WebAssembly and JSON work, with no PHP, Node.js, Python or databases.
• For client-side routing in single-page apps, use hash routes (#/about) because there is no single-page-app fallback.

Tip: File paths on ship.page are case-sensitive, so make sure your image and script links match your exact file names.

When to upgrade to Pro for $4 a month

A free page cannot be updated in place; uploading a new version creates a new link, and free pages show a small Hosted on ship.page badge that visitors can close. If you post a link in a pinned Discord message and want to edit the page later without breaking the URL, Pro is $4 a month (monthly billing, cancel anytime, no yearly plan).

Pro pages do not expire while you are on Pro (or you can pick any expiry from 60 seconds), let you re-upload or edit a page and keep the same link, remove the badge, and add password protection. Pro also raises the limit to 100 MB ZIPs (400 MB unpacked), 10,000 files per upload and 120 deploys a minute, and includes up to 5 custom subdomains like yourname.ship.place that you can point at any of your pages.