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How to use javascript in html to read text file and display it. Function readFilefileName var fileRead new ActiveXObjectScriptingFileSystemObject. The following is the web page that will retrieve and display the names on load. WhiletextAtEndOfSteam text textReadLine.
Reads the contents of the specified input file. The result attribute contains an ArrayBuffer representing the files data. There is a manual refresh button as.
It consists of the following nine names. In this example we will just create a text area where the text will appear from the text file that has been used as an input in the indexhtml. There are four inbuilt methods in the FileReader API to read local files.
Text fileReadOpenTextFilefileName 1 false 0. To get the text to display with new lines etc use a or a ie.