I have an XLS file with data in it.
The excel file has a lot of reference in one column, so I want the user to type the reference then the web page search for the reference and show the data in the line found.
I can't use a server, so I want to do it without PHP or things like that.
Is it possible ? How can I do that ?
Thanks
Here is the sample of js-xlsx, and will return all values in all worksheets as JSON object, you may need to modify by your usage.
<html>
<script src="xlsx.core.min.js"></script>
<head></head>
<body>
</body>
<script type ="text/javascript">
"use strict";
var X = XLSX;
function convertFile(b64data) {
var wb = X.read(b64data, {type: 'base64',WTF: false});
var result = {};
wb.SheetNames.forEach(function(sheetName) {
var roa = X.utils.sheet_to_row_object_array(wb.Sheets[sheetName]);
if(roa.length > 0){
result[sheetName] = roa;
}
});
return JSON.stringify(result, 2, 2);
}
</script>
</html>
More option (by upload file, drag and drop option), you can study the source code of js-xlsx example: http://oss.sheetjs.com/js-xlsx/
You don't need PHP but at least Javascript.
You can do it like this:
var excel = new ActiveXObject("Excel.Application");
var wb = excel.Workbooks.Open("Path/to/your/excel/file.xls");
var ws = wb.ActiveSheet;
var cell = ws.Cells.Find("your search input");
alert(cell.Row);
excel.Quit();
I hope i could help you;)
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I found a lot of good suggestions on how to load a csv/txt file into a html page into a table, but none of the solutions are working for me. Here is the code I am working with. I have both files located in my C: drive and basically would like to load this csv/txt file and show it on as a table in index.html. Thanks so much!
data.txt
heading1,heading2,heading3,heading4,heading5
value1_1,value2_1,value3_1,value4_1,value5_1
value1_2,value2_2,value3_2,value4_2,value5_2
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->
<html lang="en">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "data.txt",
dataType: "text",
success: function(data) {processData(data);}
});
});
function processData(allText) {
var allTextLines = allText.split(/\r\n|\n/);
var headers = allTextLines[0].split(',');
var lines = [];
for (var i=1; i<allTextLines.length; i++) {
var data = allTextLines[i].split(',');
if (data.length == headers.length) {
var tarr = [];
for (var j=0; j<headers.length; j++) {
tarr.push(headers[j]+":"+data[j]);
}
lines.push(tarr);
}
}
\\ alert(lines);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
You can't access local files with JS. That would be serious security vulnerability, because you could send a malicious webpage to a user, which would download their files and send them to someone. As midrizi mentioned in the comments, you'll need a server to download files from there.
As others have noted, you can't automatically read a local file into the browser.
But you can prompt the user to select a file, using the <input type="file"> element.
Once a file has been selected via that input, it can be read via JavaScript.
<label for="file">Select a Text File:</label><br />
<input id="file" type="file" /><br/>
<button onclick="readFile()">Read File</button><br/>
let input = document.getElementById('file');
let contents = document.getElementById('contents');
function readFile () {
let file = input.files[0];
const reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function (evt) {
console.log('reader.onload');
contents.innerHTML = String(evt.target.result);
};
reader.readAsText(file);
}
If you can modify the data.txt a bit you can just load it as another script file without need for a server.
Change data.txt to this
var data = `heading1,heading2,heading3,heading4,heading5
value1_1,value2_1,value3_1,value4_1,value5_1
value1_2,value2_2,value3_2,value4_2,value5_2`
And load it as a javascript file before your actual script
<script type="text/javascript" src="data.txt"></script>
Then you can use the variable data which holds your file content without any ajax call.
There is no way you can retrieve a local file if you don't serve it, as pointed out in the comments to your question.
There are approaches you can take to that, though. If you can't serve it by any means, you could create a GitHub repo and upload your file there. Then you can use the link to your raw file:
And you can also take steps to automate that, but it should be easy enough committing your file locally whenever you update it and push it to GitHub. Just in case you're not familiar with Git and GitHub, here's a handy ref.
A word of caution: unless you have total control over the characters that you include in your CSV, parsing them by naively splitting commas like that might result in ugly stuff if the values within contain commas themselves. Some CSV files also come with extra stuff in the beginning of the file (like the sep indicator in the first row, which defines what character to interpret as separator). You may completely ignore these warnings if you're producing the CSV yourself.
Also I noticed your function does not take care of building the actual table, so I changed it so it does. I also used Fetch API to retrieve the data:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->
<html lang="en">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
function processData(csv) {
let data = csv.split(/\r\n|\n/).map(v => v.split(','));
let headers = data.shift();
let table = document.createElement('table');
let thead = document.createElement('thead');
table.appendChild(thead);
thead.innerHTML = '<tr><th>' + headers.join('</th><th>') + '</th></tr>';
let tbody = document.createElement('tbody');
table.appendChild(tbody);
for (let row of data) {
tbody.innerHTML += '<tr><td>' + row.join('</td><td>') + '</td></tr>';
}
document.body.appendChild(table);
}
// I uploaded the CSV to a personal repo for this example,
// but you CAN use a local file as long as you *serve* it
fetch("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gyohza/test/master/so/data.txt")
.then(res => res.text())
.then(text => processData(text));
</script>
</body>
</html>
So, I've been working on a page that uses only local files (server is not an option, unfortunately. Not even a localhost. The struggle is real.) and I've come to a situation where I need to grab text from a .csv file and populate it to the page. I have this bit of code that works, but I need to have a file set within the function when a button is pressed. Looking up the file manually isn't an option (to visualize what I'm doing, I'm making a mock database file in the most annoying way possible (because I have to, not because I want to)).
In the page I would have something like:
<button id="myButton" onclick="getText()"></button>
<script>
var myFile = "dataset.csv";
...
</script>
The following bit of code works (in regards to having it pull the data from the csv file), but, as I said, I need to pull the text from the file when a button is pressed and just have the file name set in the script, not pulling it up manually.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<input type="file" id="fileinput" />
<div id="outputdiv"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
function readSingleFile(evt) {
var f = evt.target.files[0];
if (f) {
var r = new FileReader();
r.onload = function(e) {
var contents = e.target.result;
var splited = contents.split(/\r\n|\n|\r|,/g);
for (i=0; i<splited.length; i++){
document.getElementById("outputdiv").innerHTML = document.getElementById("outputdiv").innerHTML + splited[i] + "<br>";
}
}
r.readAsText(f);
} else {
alert("Failed to load file");
}
}
document.getElementById('fileinput').addEventListener('change', readSingleFile, false);
</script>
</body>
</html>
From what I can tell from the API, I would need to set the file attributes to a blob in order to pass it to FileReader. How I can do this without using an input box, I have no idea. There's also a 50% chance that I am completely wrong about this since I obviously don't know how to get this done.
If someone could show me how to achieve this with regards to what I'm looking for, it would be very much appreciated. I'm absolutely stumped.
Thank you.
Note: CORS restrictons will prevent this from working in most browsers. You can use FireFox Developer Edition, which disables CORS validation.
You can use an XMLHttpRequest to load a local file:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<button onclick="readSingleFile()">Click Me</button>
<div id="outputdiv"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
function readSingleFile() {
let xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
let url = "relative/path/to/file.txt;
if (!url) return;
xhr.onload = dataLoaded;
xhr.onerror = _ => "There was an error loading the file.";
xhr.overrideMimeType("text/plain");
xhr.open("GET",url);
xhr.send();
}
function dataLoaded(e){
var contents = e.target.responseText;
var splited = contents.split(/\r\n|\n|\r|,/g);
for (i=0; i<splited.length; i++){
document.getElementById("outputdiv").innerHTML = document.getElementById("outputdiv").innerHTML + splited[i] + "<br>";
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Using the example code from the tutorial:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="dygraph-combined.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="graphdiv2"
style="width:500px; height:300px;"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
g2 = new Dygraph(
document.getElementById("graphdiv2"),
"temperatures.csv", // path to CSV file
{} // options
);
</script>
</body>
</html>
I'd like to load only the last 10 lines from temperatures.csv instead of the whole file. Can I pass an instruction to the dygraphs' csv parser to do this?
There is no such option to set limit or/and offset according to source code https://github.com/danvk/dygraphs/blob/master/dygraph.js#L2942
But you can override function Dygraph.prototype.parseCSV_ in your code to achieve this.
For example like this:
// Save old function
var parseCSV_ = Dygraph.prototype.parseCSV_;
Dygraph.prototype.parseCSV_ = function(data) {
// Get all data
var ret = parseCSV_(data);
// Return only last 10 items
return ret.slice(ret.length - 10);
};
g2 = new Dygraph(
document.getElementById("graphdiv2"),
"temperatures.csv", // path to CSV file
{} // options
);
P.S. I'd recommend you to use new CSV file with only last 10 items to speed up loading, so generate it on back end if it is possible.
I need to POST form values from one page to another using Javascript.
Now, I know that I could use a server-side technology like ASP.Net or PHP to post values but I am not allowed to use any server side script.
I am aware that using the GET method, I can pass the form values as a query string but the values will not be passed securely (which is an important requirement!)
The conditions listed below:
This code should take the values that are posted to the page and
repost to target page. HTTP POST only (not get).
In no cases, even error, the request should not stop on this bridge page.
The script needs to handle multiple posted values.
Try to use standard javascript (no 3rd party library)
Script needs to work in IE, FF, Safari, most standard browsers
Can anyone please help me find a solution to this or point me to some resource that will help me find the soln? Thanks in advance. Below is the code for passing values as a query string. Can I modify this so that my above requirements are satisfied?
FORM
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function goto_page(page) {
var usbnum = document.getElementById('usbnum').value;
var usbcode = document.getElementById('usbcode').value;
var q_str = '?usbnum=' + usbnum + '&usbcode=' + usbcode;
var url = page + q_str;
window.location = url;
}
</script>
</head>
<form id="form1" method="post">
<div>
USB No: <input name="usbnum" id="usbnum" type="text" size="80" /><br />
USB Code: <input name="usbcode" id="usbcode" type="text" size="80"/>
</div>
Next
</form>
</body>
</html>
BRIDGE PAGE
<html>
<head>
<title>Bridge Page</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function get_params() {
var url = window.location.href;
var q_str_part = url.match(/\?(.+)$/)[1];
var val_pairs = q_str_part.split('&');
var params = {};
for (var i = 0; i < val_pairs.length; i++) {
var tmp = val_pairs[i].split('=');
params[tmp[0]] = typeof tmp[1] != 'undefined' ? tmp[1] : '';
}
return params;
}
function write_params() {
var params = get_params();
var txt = 'Hello ';
for (var i in params) {
txt += params[i] + ' ';
}
var body = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
body.innerHTML += txt;
}
function write_params() {
var params = get_params();
var num_container = document.getElementById('usbnum');
var code_container = document.getElementById('usbcode');
num_container.innerHTML = params.usbnum;
code_container.innerHTML = params.usbcode;
}
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="write_params()">
</body>
</html>
POST data can only be handled by server side code. There is no way you can use them in your javascript without help from a server side code.
You can only use GET or you can think about cookies. But at other hand, why do you want to change current page?! you can use AJAX to load more data without refreshing and no need of posting or getting variables.
I have following code for reading excel in javascript :
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function readData(x,y)
{
var excel = new ActiveXObject("Excel.Application");
alert(excel);
var excel_file = excel.Workbooks.Open("D:\File1.xlsx");
Excel.Visible = true;
alert(excel_file);
var excel_sheet = excel_file.Worksheets("DEPT INC UPDATE");
alert(excel_sheet);
var data = excel_sheet.Cells(x,y).Value;
alert(data);
return data;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" value="SimpleButton" onclick="readData(2,3);" />
</body>
</html>
But dunno where it is going wrong ??
your input element is a submit button, but is not inside a form. When readData returns the data, nothing ever makes any use of it. and as to the rest, i dunno. you don't say where it's going wrong. does it show any one alert box?
i think there is an error in giving the path. Use double backward slashes instead of single.
In your case..
D:\File1.xlsx
Hope this might be helpful..:)