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salmansohail · #1 (**permalink**) 11-05-09, 09:32 AM

I wish to display the output in a nice table format, the text file contains loads of rows and columns and each column separates either by space " " or "," .
Please can someone help, at the moment it says, Problem retrieving data. Unknown

Further I am not sure if i need a webserver to make this work, as currenlty all html files are stored on a network drive and everything works fine except this section.

Code:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
var xmlhttp;
function loadXMLDoc(url)
{
xmlhttp=null;
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
  xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
else
  {// code for IE6, IE5
  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=state_Change;
xmlhttp.open("GET",url,true);
xmlhttp.send(null);
}

function state_Change()
{
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4)
  {// 4 = "loaded"
  if (xmlhttp.status==200)
    {// 200 = "OK"
    document.getElementById('T1').innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
    }
  else
    {
    alert("Problem retrieving data:" + xmlhttp.statusText);
    }
  }
}
</script>
</head>

<body onload="loadXMLDoc('testdetails1.txt')">
<div id="T1" style="border:1px solid black;width:300;padding:5"></div><br />
<button onclick="loadXMLDoc('testdetails2.txt')">Click</button>
<button onclick="loadXMLDoc('testdetails3.csv')">Click</button>

</body>