getting text files from a server for use in a dHTML layer
Is there a JavaScript script (no Java) which can download a text file from a server and put the content of that file in a dHTML layer? I need this for a news ticker script, but most of them are in Java, or use images instead of text.
John Pollock posted this at 22:50 — 15th December 1999.
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JavaScript can only read from a .js file and from a cookie, but not a plain text file. You might be able to set a bunch of string variables to hold the contents of the layer (tags, etc.) and then use document.write() on the page to call them.
I haven't tried it out yet though.
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f.hettinga posted this at 14:52 — 16th December 1999.
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Yes, i did this before and it worked, but i can't figure out how to create a link in the document.write. i tried it this way:
document.write("<a href="http://www.anything.
com>click here!</a>");
but it didn't work... Any sugestions?
Anonymous posted this at 15:07 — 16th December 1999.
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When using the document.write script there are some charachters which are read as JavaScritp when they should be read as html, these include "/". to prevent it being read as JavaScript you have to use the "\" character, this escapes JavaScript for the character which follows it.
So you want something like this
This should work.
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