Create HTML file with JavaScript

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I'm looking for a way to use a JavaScript function to create a new HTML file in the local directory. Is this possible?

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this type of question has been asked many times before: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/582268/jquery-read-write-to-file/582281 — Naeem Sarfraz, Sep 30 '10 at 05:16

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 30 '10 at 05:17

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(Client Side) Yes, but you might need to create a new ActiveX Object, therefore the browser should be IE only.

(Server Side) Just use any server-side scripting language (JS is not one).

answered Sep 30 '10 at 05:17

Ruel

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I am afraid there is server-side Javascript, for instance, Node.js :) – Michael Mao Sep 30 '10 at 05:21
There's also Narwhal and RingoJS! – xj9 Sep 30 '10 at 06:58

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 30 '10 at 05:20

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Just for web sanity and security. Making JS do things like that is obtrusive. You might write a text file someone else might write virus.py on the client side.

answered Sep 30 '10 at 05:20

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 30 '10 at 05:50

Using javascript to create html is generally a bad idea because that's not what javascript was designed for, and there is nothing about javascript that makes it well-suited for that task. You're much better off generating html with a server-side language like php, which is commonly used to create html.

Create HTML file with JavaScript

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