Show a txt file on a webpage which updates every second

Question

I\'m sort of shooting in the dark here; I have no knowledge how to do this so some pointers and/or links to helpful tutorials would be great:

I have a website that I

Answer 1

Using jQuery, you could do the following

setInterval(function() {
    $('#element').load('/url/to/file');
}, 1000);

Would refresh the div with ID element with the file contents every 1 second