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.
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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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Simple answer is: You can't.
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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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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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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
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