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**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** v2\
**Created:** [March 15, 2017, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/display-content-from-html-file-on-a-page/6953 "2017-03-15T08:46:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
**Page:** 1
**Author:**  [@macgyver](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/macgyver)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/display-content-from-html-file-on-a-page/6953/1 "2017-03-15T08:46:22Z")
I am at the stage of adding content to a site. The content, which was created in another program, consists of an HTML file and a folder of images.
Is it possible to add these as files to a page then have kirby use the content of the HTML file on the page?
Thanks
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**Author:**  [@fvsch](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/fvsch)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/display-content-from-html-file-on-a-page/6953/2 "2017-03-15T09:00:00Z")
Yup. I’m doing that on my site to handle legacy content.
```auto
content/
old-article/
index.html
meta.txt
```
In the `meta.txt` I have a ContentFile field like this:
```auto
----
ContentFile: index.html
----
```
Then with a `meta.php` template it’s trivial to show the contents of the HTML file:
```php
contentfile()->toFile()) {
$file->show();
}
```
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**Author:**  [@texnixe](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/texnixe)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/display-content-from-html-file-on-a-page/6953/3 "2017-03-15T09:03:20Z")
Please note that currently Kirby does not allow uploading .html files via the Panel; you would have to add them to a folder manually.
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**Author:**  [@macgyver](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/macgyver)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/display-content-from-html-file-on-a-page/6953/4 "2017-03-15T09:11:49Z")
@fvsch How do you deal with images in that scenario?
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**Author:**  [@fvsch](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/fvsch)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/display-content-from-html-file-on-a-page/6953/5 "2017-03-15T10:33:44Z")
Depends what “dealing with images” means. Just showing an image when the original HTML says `
`?
In my case I have a rather specific setup where I don’t use numbered page folders, and I’m serving the `content` folder as my web root, so `/some/page/something.jpg` serves the `content/some/page/something.jpg` file directly. I’m “only” using Kirby to render a page if the request did not match an existing file.
In a more standard setup, you could rewrite the HTML, using a list of known files:
```php
contentfile()->toFile()) {
$fileMap = [];
foreach($page->files() as $file) {
$fileMap[$file->filename()] = $file->url();
}
$html = str_replace(
array_keys($fileMap),
array_values($fileMap),
$content->read()
);
$content->headers();
echo $html;
}
```
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**Author:**  [@macgyver](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/macgyver)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/display-content-from-html-file-on-a-page/6953/6 "2017-03-16T11:05:14Z")
Is it possible to pass the content of a md file through kirbytext() so that image links work?
Something like this?
```
contentfile()->toFile()) {
$file->show()->kirbytext();
}?>
```
At the moment I just get the text:
Thanks
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**Author:**  [@texnixe](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/texnixe)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/display-content-from-html-file-on-a-page/6953/7 "2017-03-16T11:44:37Z")
Try with the kirbtext helper (untested)
```auto
echo kirbytext($file->show());
```
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**Author:**  [@macgyver](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/macgyver)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 12:00pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/display-content-from-html-file-on-a-page/6953/8 "2017-03-16T12:00:35Z")
I get the same as before unfortunately…hmmm
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**Author:**  [@distantnative](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/distantnative)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/display-content-from-html-file-on-a-page/6953/9 "2025-02-06T16:50:25Z")