Read a txt file from my server using javascript

Question

I know this kind of questions have been asked a numerous times. But i am confused as no answer really helped me.

Problem:

I have a .txt file on http://example.come/test.txt.

And I want to do is display all the contents of the txt file using JS in a test.html file.

Any help is appreciated...

If you're using jQuery, have you tried any of these: http://api.jquery.com/category/ajax/shorthand-methods/, http://api.jquery.com/load/ specifically? — slamborne, Feb 28 '13 at 09:46
http://www.scriptsplash.com/2009/07/simple-ajax-request-loading-text-file.html — Dipesh Parmar, Feb 28 '13 at 09:48

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '13 at 09:58

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You can make an Ajax call to receive the contents of the text file and than insert it into you DOM. It should be something like this:

<html>
<head>
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
    <script>
        $(function() {
            $.get('text.txt', function(data) {
                $('#text-file-container').html(data);
            });
        });
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="text-file-container"></div>
</body>
</html>

answered Feb 28 '13 at 09:58

Vadim

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hi there,i tried the above as an example. and nothing happens. it shows nothing. – psharma Feb 28 '13 at 15:15
I am getting this error ```Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin. ``` – psharma Feb 28 '13 at 15:17
@softwareisfun I guess it need a to be run on an actual server. Ajax calls are restricted to be run on the client-side. – Reza Hajianpour Jul 23 '16 at 18:12

Read a txt file from my server using javascript

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