I'm trying to create a site where the user input's some data (string) into an input box or form, and then that information is put into a .txt file in the user’a C drive. Anyone have any code that doesn't involve uploading it to a server first, or is that my only option?
I don’t currently have access to my code at the moment, but I’ve been trying multiple forms and object creations etc but with no luck so far.
It's hard to fully understand what you're trying to do, but something like this should be able to store text from an input into a Blob, and then allow you to download it as a .txt file without any upload:
function createFile() {
var a = document.getElementById("download");
var text = document.getElementById('text').value
var file = new Blob([text], {type: 'text/plain'});
a.href = URL.createObjectURL(file);
a.download = 'myFile.txt';
}
document.getElementById('create').addEventListener('click', createFile);
HTML:
<input id="text" type="textbox">
<button id="create">create file</button>
<a id="download"> download file </a>
You should be able to easily edit the above to take in text from anywhere or name the file as needed, but I think the key from the example is just leveraging the Blob API
