read txt file via client javascript

Question

I'm new to javascript and trying to open a txt file into var and then inject it to html div... I tried to use fopen but I didn't succeed.

<script type="text/javascript">
file = fopen(getScriptPath("info.txt"), 0);


file_length = flength(file);
var content = fread(file,file_length);
var div = document.getElementById("myDiv");
//alert(div);
div.innerHTML = "";
div.innerHTML = content;
</script>

Answer 1

Although it says xml request this works perfectly fine for txt files too (server and client side).

if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
    xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
else
{// code for IE6, IE5
    xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
xmlhttp.open("GET","YOUR_FILE.txt",false);
xmlhttp.send();
xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseText;