read txt file via client javascript

Question

I\'m new to javascript and trying to open a txt file into var and then inject it to html div... I tried to use fopen but I didn\'t succeed.

Answer 1

Although it says xml request this works perfectly fine for txt files too (server and client side).

if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
    xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
else
{// code for IE6, IE5
    xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
xmlhttp.open("GET","YOUR_FILE.txt",false);
xmlhttp.send();
xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseText;