Monday, January 20, 2014

Loading, Editing, and Saving a Text File in HTML5 Using Javascript

<html>
<body>

<table>
 <tr><td>Text to Save:</td></tr>
 <tr>
  <td colspan="3">
   <textarea id="inputTextToSave" style="width:512px;height:256px"></textarea>
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>Filename to Save As:</td>
  <td><input id="inputFileNameToSaveAs"></input></td>
  <td><button onclick="saveTextAsFile()">Save Text to File</button></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>Select a File to Load:</td>
  <td><input type="file" id="fileToLoad"></td>
  <td><button onclick="loadFileAsText()">Load Selected File</button><td>
 </tr>
</table>

<script type='text/javascript'>

function saveTextAsFile()
{
 var textToWrite = document.getElementById("inputTextToSave").value;
 var textFileAsBlob = new Blob([textToWrite], {type:'text/plain'});
 var fileNameToSaveAs = document.getElementById("inputFileNameToSaveAs").value;

 var downloadLink = document.createElement("a");
 downloadLink.download = fileNameToSaveAs;
 downloadLink.innerHTML = "Download File";
 if (window.webkitURL != null)
 {
  // Chrome allows the link to be clicked
  // without actually adding it to the DOM.
  downloadLink.href = window.webkitURL.createObjectURL(textFileAsBlob);
 }
 else
 {
  // Firefox requires the link to be added to the DOM
  // before it can be clicked.
  downloadLink.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(textFileAsBlob);
  downloadLink.onclick = destroyClickedElement;
  downloadLink.style.display = "none";
  document.body.appendChild(downloadLink);
 }

 downloadLink.click();
}

function destroyClickedElement(event)
{
 document.body.removeChild(event.target);
}

function loadFileAsText()
{
 var fileToLoad = document.getElementById("fileToLoad").files[0];

 var fileReader = new FileReader();
 fileReader.onload = function(fileLoadedEvent) 
 {
  var textFromFileLoaded = fileLoadedEvent.target.result;
  document.getElementById("inputTextToSave").value = textFromFileLoaded;
 };
 fileReader.readAsText(fileToLoad, "UTF-8");
}

</script>

</body>
</html>

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