Topic awaiting preservation: Read txt/ascii with JScript?

Hi guys,

I was just wondering whether it is possible to parse css files with JScript as if the css file was just a plain ascii text file?

I want to do this because the standard stylesheet parsing functions in JScript and Javascript will skip any css values IE doesn't understand (replaces them with 'UNKNOWN') - I don't want it to do this - I want to read the whole file as plain text. I'm pretty sure javascript couldn't do it, but I know there are some extra JScript functions that allow stuff like this so I'm hoping that there will be something can do exactly this.

Thanks guys,

Jon

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AFAIK, there is no way you can read data from a file with Javascript unless you load a text file into an iframe then use innerHTML() to get at it.

Might have some more luck with JScript, but I know noffin about that. Sorry.

Not with javascript - I know there is no way with javascript.

But JScript is a whole different kettly of fish - it has many proprietry and advanced functions that javascript doesn't have and since I only need it to work with IE it's perfect.

Locally JScript can be used to read any ascii based format with something like this:

<script>
var fso, ts, s;
fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
ts = fso.OpenTextFile("styles.css", 1);
s = ts.ReadAll();
document.write(s);
</script>

But firstly it pops up an IE warning prompt and then a antivirus security box - it doesn't work however from files on a server - although it can work fine as a complete serverside solution but I can't be doing that.

The prompt problem is because of the ActiveX, so I'm wondering if there is another way to do it with JScript.

Thanks anyway tho,

Jon

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You may be able to load and parse it using an xmlHTTP object (via the .innerHTML property perhaps.)

You can infact read data from a textfile using jscript, if that file is a js-file.
It's not much of a bother saving information as objects in a js-file.
- What's wrong with you people anyway??

(^-^)b

You can use a built in IE behavior, the "download" behavior. For instance, try this:

var sheet, links = document.getElementsByTagName('link');

for(var i=0; i<links.length; i++) {

   sheet = links[i];

   // if(  ) { // possibly some checks here...

      sheet.addBehavior('#default#download');

      sheet.startDownload(sheet.href, parseCSSText);

   // }

}



function parseCSSText(css) {

   alert(css); // jay!

}

Then you'll have to filter everything with heaps of regular expressions you're entering a "world of pain", so to speak. :P but it's a fun challenge.

peterned

Cameron, how do you do that. Do you simply make an Iframe, and then do
alert(document.getElementById("myIframe").innerHTML)
on it? I've tried that, and other functions such as alert(document.getElementById("myIframe").src) work, but his simply returns nothing. Any ideas?

Wrayal

EDIT: Sorry, found the problem: should be
alert(myIframe.document.body.innerHTML)

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[This message has been edited by wrayal (edited 02-08-2004).]

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