I am using the following code to create a text file using javascript and it's not working
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function WriteToFile()
{
var txt = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
var s = txt.CreateTextFile("11.txt", true);
s.WriteLine('Hello');
s.Close();
}
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="WriteToFile()">
</body>
</html>
Try this:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function WriteToFile(passForm) {
set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
set s = fso.CreateTextFile("C:\test.txt", True);
s.writeline("HI");
s.writeline("Bye");
s.writeline("-----------------------------");
s.Close();
}
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<body>
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</p>
<form onSubmit="WriteToFile(this)">
Type your first name:
<input type="text" name="FirstName" size="20">
<br>Type your last name:
<input type="text" name="LastName" size="20">
<br>
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>
This will work only on IE
That works better with this :
var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
var a = fso.CreateTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", true);
a.WriteLine("This is a test.");
a.Close();
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5t9b5c0c(v=vs.84).aspx
From a web page this cannot work since IE restricts the use of that object.
href to the URL Object, and the download property as the desired filenamebody) using ElementTarget.append().click() on the anchor element<textarea id="content" placeholder="Content..." cols="32" rows="7">Lorem ipsum
dolor sit amet!</textarea><br>
<input type="text" id="fileName" placeholder="download.txt">
<button type="button" id="download">Download</button>
<script>
// DOM utility functions:
const el = (sel, par) => (par || document).querySelector(sel);
const elNew = (tag, prop) => Object.assign(document.createElement(tag), prop);
// Create file and download it:
const createAndDownload = (content, download = "download.txt", type = "text/plain") => {
const file = new Blob([content], { type });
const href = URL.createObjectURL(file);
const elAnchor = elNew("a", { href, download });
el("body").append(elAnchor);
elAnchor.click();
elAnchor.remove();
URL.revokeObjectURL(href);
};
// Usage example:
el("#download").addEventListener("click", () => {
const text = el("#content").value;
const name = el("#fileName").value;
createAndDownload(text, name, "text/plain");
});
</script>
You have to specify the folder where you are saving it and it has to exist, in other case it will throw an error.
var s = txt.CreateTextFile("c:\\11.txt", true);
