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Access the file contents from inside the callback function and display on console – jQuery
Let’s say the following is our file and we need to read this file using jQuery.
The name of the file details −
Example
Following is the code −
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title>Document</title> </head> <link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css"> <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script> <script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js"></script> <body> <input type="file" id="readFileDemo" onchange="chooseFile()"> </body> <script> function chooseFile() { dataFromMyFile = document.getElementById("readFileDemo").files[0]; readDataFromFile = new FileReader(); readDataFromFile.onload = () => { data = readDataFromFile.result; console.log("Your File Data is="); console.log(data); }; readDataFromFile.readAsText(dataFromMyFile); } </script> </html>
To run the above program, save the file name “anyName.html(index.html)”. Right click on the file and select the option “Open with Live Server” in VSCode editor −
Output
This will produce the following output on console −
Now you can choose the file from the system on clicking “Choose File”. Here, my file name is details. We uploaded the “details.txt” file −
The file contents on console −
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