write textbox content to clientside TXT file

Pleas help me ! <br>how can I write the content of a textbox to the TXT file in client side ?<br>(I'm working about 4 days ago with this problem)<br>Thank You !

Hello,<br><br>I am pretty sure that you can't do this for security reasons. Browsers don't allow you to modify files on a client system. If that was possible, it would make it very easy for a hacker to modify files on the system of the person viewing the web page. I have done this sort of thing with an ActiveX control. This is possible because ActiveX controls are installed on the client system.<br><br>Anyone, if I am wrong about this, please let me know.<br><br>Danny<br> <img border="0" src="/forum/emoticons/wink.gif" height="15" width="15" alt=";-)" /><!-- Edit --><p><i>Last Edited : 6/5/2003 3:28:29 PM GMT</i></p>

I believe what dcarva said is true, however you can work around this<br>by writing the file server side. Here is what I mean:<br><br>One of my past programs, I allowed the client to fetch data and view it.<br>Then they would press a button that says "Excel" on it. When they press<br>the button, in my code behind, I would create a new html page as a stringbuilder, <br>then create a new file, and write the HTML to the new file.<br><br>Here is a simplified version of my code to help:<br>NOTE: REMOVE THE DECIMALS YOU SEE IN THE OPENING TAGS. <br>i.e. <.HTML>, <.HEAD>, <.FONT>, <.TABLE>, etc.<br><br>(The code will not post on this messageboard with the actual tags)<br><br><div class="msgQuoteWrap"><div class="msgCode"><br>Imports System.IO<br>Imports System.Text<br><br>Public Class WriteFile<br><br> Private Sub btnExcel_Click(ByVal sender.., ByVal e ..) Handles..<br> <br> 'Put Displayed Data into an Excel Spreadsheet<br><br> Dim oSB As New StringBuilder()<br><br> oSB.Append("<.HTML>")<br> oSB.Append("<.HEAD>")<br> oSB.Append("</head>")<br> oSB.Append("<.body>")<br> oSB.Append("<.form id=mainform method=post>")<br> oSB.Append("<.table class=Mtable id=MsgTable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=95% align=center>")<br> oSB.Append("<.tr>")<br> oSB.Append("<.th bgColor=#336699 Align=center><.font color=#ffffff>Column 1</font></th>")<br> oSB.Append("<.th bgColor=#336699 Align=left><.font color=#ffffff>Column 2</font></th>")<br> oSB.Append("<.th bgColor=#336699 Align=right><.font color=#ffffff>Column 3</font></th>")<br> oSB.Append("<.th bgColor=#336699 Align=right><.font color=#ffffff>Column 4</font></th>")<br> oSB.Append("<.th bgColor=#336699 Align=right><.font color=#ffffff>Column 5</font></th>")<br> oSB.Append("</tr>")<br> oSB.Append("</table>")<br> oSB.Append("</form>")<br> oSB.Append("</body>")<br> oSB.Append("</html>")<br><br> Dim sXLSFile As String<br> Randomize() ' Initialize random-number generator.<br> sXLSFile = CInt(Int((1000 * Rnd()) + 0)) ' Generate a random value between 0 and 1000.<br><br> 'Create the New Excel File<br> Dim oFile As New StreamWriter("C:InetpubwwwrootExcelFile" & sXLSFile & ".xls")<br><br> oFile.Write(oSB.ToString)<br> oFile.Close()<br><br> 'Direct the User to View the Excel File<br> Response.Redirect("C:InetpubwwwrootExcelFile" & sXLSFile & ".xls")<br> End Sub<br><br>End Class<br></div></div><br><br>The only downside to this, is that the files will be stored on the server, but you can clean up the contents of the folder every so often. Since you will be writing text files, they will not be so big, so I wouldn't even worry about that. If you have any questions, just post it here.<br>Good Luck!

Thank You Everybody !<br>I think you told me the truth. I try a lot of code, but nothing is working...<br>My problem is : select some record (in the browser with 'online' parameters) from a database and I transfer it to XML format (It is working, but...), and I Like to transfer the XML file to client side, because client's application does not support XML. (I have a simple program which is translate the XML file to client's database - of corse offline)<br><br>I will thankful for any idea to anybody !<br>marko