Question

How to load an page instead of http.responseText

document.getElementById("content").innerHTML = http.responseText; // works
document.getElementById("content2").innerHTML = "test"; // works
 document.getElementById("content3").src = "dir/file.txt;"; // how display file.txt content.

the file.txt path is at the same location as javascript. [web sever]

Answer 1

With jQuery, you could just do:

$("#element").load("file.txt");

All you need to do is download the jQuery js file and put it on your webserver, then include it at the top of your page:

<script src="jquery.js"></script>

…this is assuming your file is server side. It’s not possible if it’s a client-side file you want