Question: I need to show a picture on web page without uploading it. something like

```
 <img id="RuPic" src="file://localhost/D:/folder/image.jpg"/>

```

How to do that?

Answer: 
Linking to local image files from remote HTML files used to be possible, but no longer is.

* In Firefox since version 1.5 (background and config options [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/192080/firefox-links-to-local-or-network-pages-do-not-work))
* In Internet Explorer I *think* since Version 8 (I believe I have successfully done this in IE 7, but I can't find hard data)
* In Chrome probably since forever

See for example [this vulnerability report](http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm003-ie/) for why this is a good thing.

I don't think there is a workaround. You will just have to upload the image first.
I was looking for one answer and every where I found impossible, but i got the answer here:

<https://superuser.com/questions/224500/how-to-display-local-images-in-chrome-using-file-protocol>

works very good on chrome .