How to get cell-content of EXCEL file thru JavaScript ?

[BaaZauq]

Hello everybody!
I'm not a master of clientside JavaScript but I have much working knowledge of it.

Here is my problem :

I have a web-page with a "text-area" box.
I have an excel file with 10 columns and 15 rows.
each cell has a unicode-text data stored in it.

I want to show two drop-down menus along side with the above said text-area.
in first drop-down menu, column nos. of said EXCEL file will be as options where as in 2nd one, row nos. will be the options.
when a user selects an option from first DD-menu (say: E) and another option (say: 2) from 2nd DD menu and then press on submit button ...
the text area should display the data which contains in the cell E2

Is it possible?
How can we link the data of an outside file (as in this case: an EXCEL file) to an html-page ?
Is there any way of using client side javascript in this matter?
or I have to use ASP ?

many thanks (in advance) for anyone's valuable suggestions ... :)

regards:
BaaZauq

[acoder]

Welcome to TheScripts.

If you're only using Internet Explorer and this is for, say, an Intranet, where you have a controlled environment, you can use an ActiveX object to access an Excel file:

var excel = new ActiveXObject("Excel.Application");

Then use VB-like code, e.g.

excel.ActiveSheet.Cells(1,1).Value

for the value in column A, row 1.