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JavaScript

Posted by Joey Kao
Joey Kao
15,875 Points

Is there any course teaching how to use Javascript to write data in client side txt files?

I am trying to create a html page for my own to-do management. Thus, I will have to store these data in my computer's file system.

2 Answers

rydavim
rydavim
18,814 Points
rydavim
rydavim
18,814 Points

Generally speaking, this is not possible with browser based JavaScript. There are scripts out there that will open a dialogue to save a file. However, the ones I've seen will only work in something like IE, as Chrome and Firefox consider this to be a security concern.

You probably want to generate a file on the server, and then provide a link to download the file.

Joey Kao
Joey Kao
15,875 Points
Joey Kao
Joey Kao
15,875 Points

I see... so it's restricted by security concern.
Thank you so much for your reply :)