Open a new txt file w/ javascript from a browser

[AntiFreze]

Hello,

Basically, I am using a form for our clients to populate an HTML email. They hit submit, the form is filled out with what they indicated, then they save this.

This is using ASP. Now they want the option to do this with a text file, since not all email clients allow images/styling/etc. I need to use those form fields, to populate a text file.

I'm trying to avoid using the client's PC with activeX (since they need IE and drivers), as well as the server to create, modify, maintain the text files.

Does anyone know a way to open a new window in javascript, and change the actual header to text type? I've been searching the internet to no avail.

Thank you.

 

[AntiFreze]

I thought this sounded like a tough project - 22 views, no responses 🙂

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

Why not just post the data back to the server and have it create the text file? You can do that in ASP.net. Not sure about classic ASP.

 

[Cerebus451]

Not sure if this is what you are trying to do, but I was looking for a way to write a file from Javascript on the local client machine and I found this solution, but it is IE only. It doesn't require ActiveX on the client side. Not sure if it actually works because I needed something that worked in Mozilla, which this code does not. Never tried it in IE.