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Asked: 2026-05-22T02:54:05+00:00

I was wondering if it is possible in JS to open a directory, read

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I was wondering if it is possible in JS to open a directory, read an image file and display it to Html? I believe JS restricts from being able to open any file in a directory directly, but what I want is:

I have a XML file which will contain the path to a image file in the web server root folder
so my hierarchy is like this

webserver root folder--->|
                        html
                        js
                        css
                        images
                        xml

, and I will use XmlHttpRequest and feed the directory tag and file name tag to my JS file which has to display the image to my frame in the Html page.

[My image is also in the same webserver root folder but in a different folder from html]

Any pointers on how to go about it? I guess we can store the image file also in XML as a base64 encoded data, but that would make the data exchange huge, also don’t know if this is a ideal method (is it? please suggest)

Please give me some tips for this.

Thanks

Balaji R

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  1. Editorial Team

    JavaScript does not have access to filesystem on server, since it runs on the client side.

    But with JavaScript or Ajax you can call some php code on server which will read the image from the file system and then it will pass this image back to the JavaScript.

    I have described here how to do this.

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