How to read an excel file contents on client side?

Question

From the JSP page, I need to browse excel file and after selecting file on system, I need to read that excel file contents and fill my form.

Currently I have tried

Answer 1

You can load and open the file client side in most modern browsers using the HTML5 File API

Once you have loaded the file you can parse the contents with a library that supports certain excel output formats (such as csv / xlsx).

Here are a couple of options...

• CSV
• XLSX / CSV / XML