How to read text file contents in HTML without using frames & Layers????

Dear WebTechies,

I have a requirement to develop a page whith three sections with left side reserved for Index Middle one for the dynamic text loading and right one for the New Events. Now Any user clicks on any topic in Index the related text from separate text/HTML file should appear in the middle section. Please note that I have to do this without using frames.

Option 1 - Whether I can write all the text in some separate file with Section Identifiers and read the text based on the section tags using javascript ?

Is there in any way by which one can get this effect by using CSS?

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I can include text in a cell using javascript. But the problem is I need to type out the entire information in the same page. For this I need my text to reside seperate text/HTML file.
How do I read the information from different text/HTML files and include in table cells.
Any person knowing this who can bail me out of this situation will be of great help.

Thanks in Advance.

Netscape 4 has a nifty function:

document.layers.layerName.load([filename], [width]);

which will load and display an external file into a layer but IE has no such equivalent. I've used an iframe for IE and NS6 which is REALLY easy to do but if you can't use frames...

I don't think you can call a remote file with JavaScript once the page has finished loading, so what you said about having to include all your text on the page is true and going to make it very heavy for downloading.



[Edited by AhrT on 01-24-2001 at 05:27 PM]