Reading HTML Contents Into Javascript String

Question

I have been using

$autoComplete = file_get_contents("stackoverflow.com");

When using PHP, but I now need a Javascript equivalent. Is there one..

I need to read a txt file that is accessed via URL..

I obviously have been googling, but nothing seems to work.

Any help would be great..

Answer 1

This is what you need: https://api.jquery.com/jquery.ajax/

Something like:

$.get( "ajax/test.html", function( data ) {
  $( ".result" ).html( data );
  alert( "Load was performed." );
});