title: Can a javascript bookmarklet read from an excel or CSV file
body: <p>Is it possible to have a javascript bookmarklet read from an Excel or CSV file?</p>
  <p>Lets say I have an excel file of grades for a class with ID #s for each student looking similar to</p>
  <pre><code>[1,Luke,A]
  [2,Leia,B]
  [3,Anakin,C]
  ...
  </code></pre>
  <p>and I have to enter the grade into multiple web pages. My goal is to have a bookmarklet that I can click and it will put column 3 of this excel file into a text area.</p>
  <p>I know it is possible to create a command box to enter data using CSV format but that data would need to be entered every time the bookmarklet runs. I am looking for something where I can store information in a temporary table that will span multiple webpages and I can refer to with the same or different bookmarklets.</p>
  <p>Edit: Let's say the files name is currently C:\Grades.txt
  I would assume the code would look something like below. Textarea will always be the first of a page.</p>
  <pre><code>Javascript:( 
  function(){ 
  
  $.ajax({
  type: &quot;GET&quot;,
  URL: &quot;C:\Grades.txt&quot;,
  dataType: &quot;text&quot;,
  success: function(data) 
  {
  document.getElementsByTagName(&quot;Textarea&quot;)[0].value = data;
  }
  });
  })(); 
  </code></pre>
  <p>I am still just trying to have javascript read from an external file but when I use ajax it wants to put the entire HTML code of the current webpage into the text are not what is in the .txt file</p>