Manipulate Data in Internet Explorer with the Tabular Data Control

The Tabular Data Control is an ActiveX control built into Internet Explorer (versions 4 and upwards). You can use this control to extract ordered contents from an ASCII file into HTML elements, and then display them—with a little help from JavaScript.

by Premshree Pillai

June 4, 2003

n my last article, I explained how to use the XML Data Source Object to extract content from an external XML file or XML data embedded in the HTML file into a HTML page.

In this article, I will be using a similar process to demonstrate how to use the Tabular Data Control. This is an ActiveX control that's built into Internet Explorer (versions 4 and upwards), which allows you to extract ordered (delimited) contents from an ASCII file into HTML elements.

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