Thank you
markalope(a happy corto be here)
Bottom Line: Any idea how I can cause a variable in a javascript to be populated by the contents of a referenced text file?
On the index page of my site (www.corto.ca/corto) there is a little scrolling window with the heading "Site History". Below that is a honking big block of javascript garnered from elsewhere on the web. There is a "var" tag at the top of that script which populates the variable 'content' with a bunch of text... so if that var tag looked like;
var content='ALL KINDS OF TEXT GOES HERE'
the scrolling window would display the clause "ALL KINDS OF TEXT GOES HERE" and scroll it past.
So far so good?
Ok, now the issue is that every time I want to add to the site history I have to open up index.html and add to the string at the end of the var line.
My desire is to have a text file (i.e. history.txt) in the root directory of that web URL that the variable is populated from... sorta like;
var content=history.txt
... but, of course, this does not work...
Any idea how I can cause a variable in a javascript to be populated by the contents of a referenced text file?