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Is it possible to access file with extension *.txt or *.file in JavaScript? I want to call this file in my function?

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  • Javascript in a browser? And a local file? By call do you mean execute? Commented Dec 8, 2010 at 8:18
  • From server or client computer ? Commented Dec 8, 2010 at 8:18
  • @Rober: how do you execute a .txt or .file ? Commented Dec 8, 2010 at 8:19
  • Like the other guys said, it's not possible to do this in the browser. Can you explain why you want to do this is more detail? Maybe we can find a different solution for you. Commented Dec 8, 2010 at 8:19
  • You can with a work-around: I'd suggest searching Stack Overflow, though, as this is a common question: stackoverflow.com/questions/1981815/jquery-read-a-text-file stackoverflow.com/questions/196498/… Commented Dec 8, 2010 at 8:20

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If you are talking about javascript running in a web browser then the answer is no, you cannot access files on the client computer unless you use some proprietary technology like Silverlight, ActiveX, Flash, ...

If you want to access files stored on the server then you could use AJAX to query a server side script which would return the contents of the file.

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You will not be able to read the file contents using javascript which is executed in a browser. Since javascript runs in a client browser reading a file from the file system will be a secirity threat.

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As of HTML5 there are new features for file access, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/7056216/356726

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