Reading HTML Contents Into Javascript String [duplicate]

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..

If "nothing seems to work", it sounds like you actually found, and then tried, several things. That's great! But please remember to show/tell us what you tried, so we can tell whether you're actually going down the right road or whether you've completely misunderstood how JS works. — Mike 'Pomax' Kamermans
– Mike 'Pomax' Kamermans, Commented Aug 14, 2019 at 15:08

Ahmed Nuaman · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-14 15:07:00Z

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Something like:

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

answered Aug 14, 2019 at 15:07

Ahmed Nuaman

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4 Comments

why show jQuery when the JS Fetch API is a perfectly fine, modern bit of JS on every browser?

The appropriate thing to do here, as a 6K user, is to VTC as a duplicate here not answer

How could I access/display that jQuery - say in an alert box.