Inserting text from file into a form

[jmc92]

Is there a way of file browsing to a random txt file on my comp, and having its content loaded into a form on a web page?Further explaining the question....Theres a page with a large text formButton underneath says click to edit txt from fileAnd then I click, open and load the content into the form

[justsomeguy]

This isn't really a Javascript question, but you can have an upload form where after the form gets submitted it reads the file and shows the contents on the page.

[jeffman]

You can use AJAX to grab plain text from any text file on your server. No server-side scripting is required.Browsing is trickier and does require server-side action. Building a file browser from scratch is not for the faint of heart. Been there, and it was a great learning experience. There are also tools available. KFM is pretty common, and free. Google ajax file browser for others.An in-between technique would be to use just enough server-side scripting to embed a list of file URLs into your document. A user clicks on a name, and AJAX does the rest. Assuming your directory/file structure is orderly, this is not hard to do.