Chrome File Directory — Usage

The page is a static HTML table styled to look like Chromium's directory listing. Using it means editing that table to describe your files.

Edit index.html. Not index_chromium.html — that is the original Chromium page kept for reference. See Architecture.

You need a text editor and nothing else.

1. Set the title

Change the placeholder directory name in the <title> tag. It becomes the browser tab title and the page heading.

2. Add a row per entry

Copy the shape of the example rows already in the file. Each row carries:

Column	Notes
Icon	icons/folder.png for folders, icons/file.png for files
Name	The display name, wrapped in the link
Link	The href — the real path to the file or folder
Size	Free text
Date	Free text; nothing computes it

The parent-directory row uses icons/up.png.

3. Delete the leftovers

The shipped file contains example rows. Delete every row you did not customise, or your listing advertises files that do not exist.

Nothing checks this. Every row is hand-written, so no link is validated and no date is verified.

4. Publish

Copy index.html and the icons/ folder to your server. See Deployment.

Changing the look

Styling is inline in index.html by default. To move it into an external stylesheet, or to swap the icons, see Configuration.

What it does not do

It does not read a directory. Nothing scans a folder and generates rows — the listing is whatever you typed, and it goes stale the moment the real directory changes.

The original index_chromium.html does build its listing dynamically, which is why the feature list mentions automatic generation. That is the Chromium page, not the simplified one.