Question

If I open a website, how I can view my own computer’s contents on that site? I’m thinking Javascript, but how would I do this? This would be for like a file manager.

Example: Opening example.com and have a navigator for my computer’s files.

Answer 1

For security reasons, you can’t access a computer’s file system from the browser via Javascript.

However, to answer your question literally, you could do this (in your console):

var input = document.createElement('input');
input.type = 'file';
document.body.appendChild(input);

Scroll to the bottom of the page and you’ll see a file input field.

This will allow you to browse your computer’s files from the webpage.