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Asked: 2026-05-16T11:31:32+00:00

Does anyone know of a tutorial on how to read data from a server

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Does anyone know of a tutorial on how to read data from a server side file with JS? I cant seem to find any topics on this when I google it. I tried to use but it does not seem to work. I just want to read some data from a file to display on the page. Is this even possible?

var CSVfile = new File("test.csv");
var result = CVSfile.open("r");
var test = result.readln();
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  1. Editorial Team

    To achieve this, you would have to retrieve the file from the server using a method called AJAX.

    I’d look into JavaScript libraries such as Mootools and jQuery. They make AJAX very simple use.

    <html>
    <head>
        <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mootools/1.6.0/mootools-core.min.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            //This event is called when the DOM is fully loaded
            window.addEvent("domready",function(){
                //Creating a new AJAX request that will request 'test.csv' from the current directory
                var csvRequest = new Request({
                    url:"test.csv",
                    onSuccess:function(response){
                        //The response text is available in the 'response' variable
                        //Set the value of the textarea with the id 'csvResponse' to the response
                        $("csvResponse").value = response;
                    }
                }).send(); //Don't forget to send our request!
            });
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <textarea rows="5" cols="25" id="csvResponse"></textarea>
    </body>
</html>

    If you upload that to the directory that test.csv resides in on your webserver and load the page, you should see the contents of test.csv appear in the textarea defined.

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