how to put a text file in a </a></h1> </div> <div class="grid fw-wrap pb8 mb16 bb bc-black-075"> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mr16 mb8" title="2016-01-12 19:07:53Z"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Asked</span> <time itemprop="dateCreated" datetime="2016-01-14T12:50:30.937" class="fromnow">Jan 14 '16 at 12:50</time> </div> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mr16 mb8"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Active</span> <time class="fromnow" title="2016-01-14T13:26:04.590" datetime="2016-01-14T13:26:04.590">Jan 14 '16 at 13:26</a> </div> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mb8" title="Viewed 4,073 times"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Viewed</span> 4,073 times </div> </div> <div id="mainbar" role="main" aria-label="questions and answers"> <div id="question" class="question" data-questionid="34790085" data-ownerid="5763920" data-score="2"> <div class="post-layout"> <div class="votecell post-layout--left"> <div class="js-voting-container grid jc-center fd-column ai-stretch gs4 fc-black-200" data-post-id="34790085"> <button class="js-vote-up-btn grid--cell s-btn s-btnunset c-pointer"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="m0 svg-icon iconArrowUpLg" width="36" height="36" viewBox="0 0 36 36"><path d="M2 26h32L18 10 2 26z"></path></svg></button> <div class="js-vote-count grid--cell fc-black-500 fs-title grid fd-column ai-center" itemprop="upvoteCount" data-value="2">2</div> <button class="js-bookmark-btn s-btn s-btnunset c-pointer py4"> <svg aria-hidden="true" class="svg-icon iconBookmark" width="18" height="18" viewBox="0 0 18 18"><path d="M6 1a2 2 0 00-2 2v14l5-4 5 4V3a2 2 0 00-2-2H6zm3.9 3.83h2.9l-2.35 1.7.9 2.77L9 7.59l-2.35 1.7.9-2.76-2.35-1.7h2.9L9 2.06l.9 2.77z"></path></svg> <div class="js-bookmark-count mt4" data-value=""></div> </button> </div> </div> <div class="postcell post-layout--right"> <div class="s-prose js-post-body" itemprop="text"><p>Is there any way to refrence a <strong>.txt</strong> file with a <code>textarea</code>? what I've tried so far dosen't work I do <strong>not</strong> want to use php or ajax, just bare html+css+javascript</p> <p></p><div class="snippet" data-hide="false" data-lang="js"> <div class="snippet-code"> <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code> <textarea rows="16" cols="100" name="textdata" href ="hokuco.com/home/livedoc/user.txt"></textarea><br/></code></pre> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mt24 mb12"> <div class="post-taglist grid gs4 gsy fd-column"> <div class="grid ps-relative"> <a href="../../questions/tagged/html" class="post-tag js-gps-track" title="show questions tagged 'html'" rel="tag">html</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/text" class="post-tag js-gps-track" title="show questions tagged 'text'" rel="tag">text</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/textarea" class="post-tag js-gps-track" title="show questions tagged 'textarea'" rel="tag">textarea</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mb0"> <div class="mt16 grid gs8 gsy fw-wrap jc-end ai-start pt4 mb16"> <div class="grid--cell mr16 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<div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment57323379_34790085"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">Try this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19020484/loading-txt-file-into-textarea-javascript</span> – <a href="../../users/5699206/joseph-young" title="2,758 reputation" class="comment-user ">Joseph Young</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/34790085/how-to-put-a-text-file-in-a-textarea#comment57323379_34790085"><span title="2016-01-14T12:52:54.757 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Jan 14 '16 at 12:52</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-57324917" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="57324917" data-comment-owner-id="2550732" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment57324917_34790085"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">why you don't want to use ajax?</span> – <a href="../../users/2550732/ninjaonsafari" title="998 reputation" class="comment-user ">NinjaOnSafari</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/34790085/how-to-put-a-text-file-in-a-textarea#comment57324917_34790085"><span title="2016-01-14T13:31:51.697 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Jan 14 '16 at 13:31</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="answers"> <a name="tab-top"></a> <div id="answers-header"> <div class="answers-subheader grid ai-center mb8"> <div class="grid--cell fl1"> <h2 class="mb0" data-answercount="9">2 Answers<span style="display:none;" itemprop="answerCount">2</span></h2> </div> </div> </div> <a name="34790104"></a> <div id="answer-34790104" class="answer " data-answerid="34790104" data-ownerid="2550732" data-score="1" itemprop="suggestedAnswer" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Answer"> <div class="post-layout"> <div class="votecell post-layout--left"> <div class="js-voting-container grid jc-center fd-column ai-stretch gs4 fc-black-200" data-post-id="34790104"> <button class="js-vote-up-btn grid--cell s-btn s-btnunset c-pointer"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="m0 svg-icon iconArrowUpLg" width="36" height="36" viewBox="0 0 36 36"><path d="M2 26h32L18 10 2 26z"></path></svg></button> <div class="js-vote-count grid--cell fc-black-500 fs-title grid fd-column ai-center" itemprop="upvoteCount" data-value="1">1</div> </div> </div> <div class="postcell post-layout--right"> <div class="s-prose js-post-body" itemprop="text"><p>You can read the file with javascript (see link) and then add it to the textarea.</p> <p><a href="../../a/14446538#14446538">https://stackoverflow.com/a/14446538/2550732</a></p> <p>EDIT:</p> <p><strong>Javascript:</strong></p> <pre><code>function readTextFile(file) { var rawFile = new XMLHttpRequest(); rawFile.open("GET", file, false); rawFile.onreadystatechange = function () { if(rawFile.readyState === 4) { if(rawFile.status === 200 || rawFile.status == 0) { var allText = rawFile.responseText; alert(allText); } } } rawFile.send(null); } </code></pre> <p><strong>Jquery:</strong></p> <pre><code>$.ajax({ url : "helloworld.txt", dataType: "text", success : function (data) { $(".text").html(data); } }); </code></pre></div> <div class="mb0"> <div class="mt16 grid gs8 gsy fw-wrap jc-end ai-start pt4 mb16"> <div class="grid--cell mr16 fl1 w96"></div> <div class="post-signature grid--cell"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="edited May 23 '17 at 12:31">edited May 23 '17 at 12:31</time> <a href="../../users/-1/community" class="s-avatar s-avatar32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/-1.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" 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score">998</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blinggold" title="1 gold badge">1</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blingsilver" title="8 silver badge">8</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__bronze" title="32 bronze badge">32</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-layout--right js-post-comments-component"> <div id="comments-34790104" class="comments js-comments-container bt bc-black-075 mt12 " data-post-id="34790104" data-min-length="15"> <ul class="comments-list js-comments-list" data-remaining-comments-count="0" data-canpost="false" data-cansee="true" data-comments-unavailable="false" data-addlink-disabled="true"> <li id="comment-57323360" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="57323360" data-comment-owner-id="5699206" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment57323360_34790104"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">I don't think that's what they want</span> – <a href="../../users/5699206/joseph-young" title="2,758 reputation" class="comment-user ">Joseph Young</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/34790085/how-to-put-a-text-file-in-a-textarea#comment57323360_34790104"><span title="2016-01-14T12:52:22.320 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Jan 14 '16 at 12:52</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-57323451" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="57323451" data-comment-owner-id="2052085" data-comment-score="2"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> <span title="number of 'useful comment' votes received" class="warm">2</span> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment57323451_34790104"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">Put this type of link in `Comment`</span> – <a href="../../users/2052085/moumit" title="8,314 reputation" class="comment-user ">Moumit</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/34790085/how-to-put-a-text-file-in-a-textarea#comment57323451_34790104"><span title="2016-01-14T12:54:57.600 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Jan 14 '16 at 12:54</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-57323462" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="57323462" data-comment-owner-id="5763920" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment57323462_34790104"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">your right I want to refrence my text but also save to it with php</span> – <a href="../../users/5763920/parseguy" title="129 reputation" class="comment-user owner">parseguy</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/34790085/how-to-put-a-text-file-in-a-textarea#comment57323462_34790104"><span title="2016-01-14T12:55:21.817 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Jan 14 '16 at 12:55</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-57323531" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="57323531" data-comment-owner-id="5763920" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment57323531_34790104"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">can you accomplish this with bare html?</span> – <a href="../../users/5763920/parseguy" title="129 reputation" class="comment-user owner">parseguy</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/34790085/how-to-put-a-text-file-in-a-textarea#comment57323531_34790104"><span title="2016-01-14T12:57:01.750 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Jan 14 '16 at 12:57</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-57323545" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="57323545" data-comment-owner-id="1501794" data-comment-score="1"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> <span title="number of 'useful comment' votes received" class="warm">1</span> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment57323545_34790104"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">@parseguy:- No you cannot.</span> – <a href="../../users/1501794/rahul-tripathi" title="168,305 reputation" class="comment-user ">Rahul Tripathi</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/34790085/how-to-put-a-text-file-in-a-textarea#comment57323545_34790104"><span title="2016-01-14T12:57:26.873 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Jan 14 '16 at 12:57</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <a name="34790164"></a> <div id="answer-34790164" class="answer " data-answerid="34790164" data-ownerid="1501794" data-score="0" itemprop="suggestedAnswer" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Answer"> <div class="post-layout"> <div class="votecell post-layout--left"> <div class="js-voting-container grid jc-center fd-column ai-stretch gs4 fc-black-200" data-post-id="34790164"> <button class="js-vote-up-btn grid--cell s-btn s-btnunset c-pointer"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="m0 svg-icon iconArrowUpLg" width="36" height="36" viewBox="0 0 36 36"><path d="M2 26h32L18 10 2 26z"></path></svg></button> <div class="js-vote-count grid--cell fc-black-500 fs-title grid fd-column ai-center" itemprop="upvoteCount" data-value="0">0</div> </div> </div> <div class="postcell post-layout--right"> <div class="s-prose js-post-body" itemprop="text"><p>You can use JQuery and try like</p> <pre><code>$(".text").load("myText.txt"); </code></pre> <p>Check the <a class="external-link" href="http://api.jquery.com/load/" rel="nofollow">jQuery.load()</a></p></div> <div class="mb0"> <div class="mt16 grid gs8 gsy fw-wrap jc-end ai-start pt4 mb16"> <div class="grid--cell mr16 fl1 w96"></div> <div class="post-signature grid--cell"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="answered Jan 14 '16 at 12:53">answered Jan 14 '16 at 12:53</time> <a href="../../users/1501794/rahul-tripathi" class="s-avatar s-avatar32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/1501794.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="Rahul Tripathi" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/1501794/rahul-tripathi" 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