Load .txt file from javascript with jquery
Solution 1
by default javascript is NOT allowed to access local file system for security reasons. If you want to allow a particular script access to a local file then you have 2 options.
1a. Change your model, put the text file on a server and load from there...
1b. Run a local webserver :-)
2 ... this becomes browser dependent,
In particular,
you can create a signed javascript for Mozilla like browsers, see http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/signed-scripts.html for details
you can create an ActiveX plugin that allows local access for IE types... ;
and for anything else again read up o local access.
Solution 2
You can't, place it on a web server (on the same domain you are working on) then perform an AJAX GET.
var file = (function func1() {
var result;
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: file,
async: false,
success: function(data){
result = data;
}
});
return result;
})();
Solution 3
I'm guessing by your question that maybe you're trying to do some form of JS templating. In which case, you'd probably want to look at something like this: http://github.com/andyet/icanhaz.js
The short of it is, you can store text that you want access to in JS in this way:
<script id="my_snippet" type="text/html">
Whatever random text here, format doesn't really matter,
you can use whatever unless you're trying to serve it as xml.
</script>
It's actually valid in HTML 5. Then you can retrieve the contents in JS like so:
$('#my_snippet').html();
ICanHaz.js abstracts this all a bit for you so if you're templating... I'd recommend using that instead.
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Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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Luccas almost 2 years
I want to load a local .txt file and work with the content in javascript. My local file is like C:\Users\Who\Desktop\file.txt Thanks
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mk12 almost 14 yearspossible duplicate: stackoverflow.com/questions/196498/…
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Luccas almost 14 yearsi've seen it. but i want to get ir from my computer directly. jQuery.get('file://C:/Users/Luccas/Desktop/idades.txt', function(data) { var myvar = data; }); seems not to work, only solution to place on server to get via ajax said under.
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Doug Molineux almost 14 years@Yacoby, perhaps he needs some advice/pointers?? An unfriendly response like this really steers people away from sites like this
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µBio almost 14 yearsNot really true. You can't load the text from file using javascript, but you could certainly get it to the javascript for processing. See my answer.
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Anders almost 14 yearsYes, you can use a number of back end solutions, I answered the question in the context of JavaScript, a client based solution,