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how to populate a textbox with a text from a txt file located in a local drive

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jnvu16 (TechnicalUser)

2 Jul 12 0:14

I have a textbox wherein whenever the user goes to my website, the textbox will be populated by the txt file that I would put in a specific drive in the user's computer. For example let's say that this is the address "F:\sample.txt". How do I do this? And by the way, I want to use javascript on this one since I want this to be on the client side.

ChrisHirst (IS/IT--Management)

2 Jul 12 5:05

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I want to use javascript on this one since I want this to be on the client side.

Simple answer is: You can't.

Chris.

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vacunita (Programmer)

2 Jul 12 8:49

We've been through this in your other post.

JavaScript is a no go for this. However a trusted Activex control or VBscript would get this done, albeit in IE only if the security settings for IE can be set to trust the script.

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