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How do I load a .txt files contents into a textarea form field using onClick?

Asked by tim013 in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), JScript, Asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX)

Tags: onClick, textarea, javascript, load text, html form field

How do I load a .txt files contents into a textarea form field using onClick?

I'm close but I just can't figure this out or find an answer anywhere.

When <button1> is clicked, I want the contents in textfile.txt to be displayed in <textarea>.

This is what I got:

<input type="button" onClick="document.getElementById('textarea').value=href=('textfile.txt')" name="button1" id="button1" value="Button 1" />

<input type="textarea" name="textarea" id="textarea" value="" />

What this code does, is displays "textfile.txt" in the textarea rather than the contents in my textfile.txt file. The textfile.txt file is in the same path as this webpage.

So basically, I want the contents in textfile.txt to be displayed in a textarea form field when button1 is clicked. I do believe this may be possible with the right .valueblahblahblah in the second part of the onClick function. Or maybe there is a more simple way of doing it using ajax or php.

What I'm trying to do is have a row of buttons at the top and a textarea below that on my webpage. When one of those buttons is clicked, the contents of the specified .txt file is displayed in that textarea form field.

I'm doing this on a .html page.

 
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