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I want user upon clicking a button it will load the a txt file from a e.g Desktop and display the contents.

Can this be done?

I found a lot of examples for loading a file but not displaying it.

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JavaScript in the browser can't access the user's file system - it would be a security issue.

  1. Consider other client side options like Java Applets or Flash.
  2. In the worst-case, you could upload the file to the server and send it back to the client - but there's probably no usecase that calls for such an expensive hack.

Additionally, check out this SO question - the File API will allow this.

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Try this http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/602

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Did you read the OP's question? And posting links to remote sites with no explanation isn't an answer IMO...
That's doesn't seem like it's what the OP wants - that's about loading an HTML page into a div.
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There's an excellent tutorial on html5rocks.com, 'Reading Files in JavaScript using the File APIs', that shows how to use the FileReader interface:

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/dndfiles/

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