Posted by Steve Pugh on 03/25/06 16:24

Martin Pöpping <martin_p@despammed.com> wrote:

>I want to load a csv-file to a textarea field.

Textareas are for the input of text content, you would need to copy
and paste the contents of the csv file into the textarea. To upload a
csv file, or any other sort of file, there needs to be a <input
type="file"> instead.

If you're talking about displaying the contents of a csv file then
forget all about form inputs and either simply link to the csv file:
<a href="myfile.csv">Blah blah blah</a>,
or parse the contents of the csv file on the server and include that
in the ouput HTML,
or load the csv file into an iframe and test to see whether browsers
display it (as its plain text there's a good chance they will).

>Is it possible to do that only with HTML?
>Or do I need f.e.?

What's f.e.?

Steve
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