HTML - Load Client File Into Textarea

Hi everyone, my first post here!

I'm trying to develop a website to display weather.
Its really quite simple;

One computer runs some weather software which gets its data from a weather station, the weather software creates .jpg images of the data it receives and ftp's them every 60 seconds to a webserver that just has a simple html page displaying all of the 6 images on one page again refreshing every 60 seconds.

This has been running for some time but I have recently been asked to include data from another computer that monitors tidal height. This computer also ftp's its data every 60 seconds to the same webserver but in a csv .txt file. I can display this txt file directly on the site in a iframe but its really badly formatted.

What's the best way of formatting the data client side? I thought maybe with javascript, but its something I have never used before.

thanks in advance,
Nick

First of all, I don't know what the thing is called that blinks inside a textarea. So if you could tell me what the name of that is, that'll be great. I'll called it a cursor for now.

Here's the problem. Let's say I had a simple textarea with some values already filled in.

Ex:
Code:

<textarea name="input1" rows="15" cols="75">
<!-- Cursor should go here -->
----- Original Message -----
From: blah
To: Blah
Date: Blah

Blah Some Random Text
</textarea>

So, whenever a page loads, I need the "cursor" to be automatically at the beginning of the textarea (where "<!-- Cursor should go here -->" is). How would I go about doing that either in just HTML or Javascript?

Hi, I know how to include default text in a text area box, but is it possible for it to show a .txt file on the server, would the page need to be php for this? thanks

I want to be able to have a script in my .html page that loads HTML from a file in the directory so that if I want to update, I can change only he file and not every single web page.

I know it's possible and pretty simple, would appreciate all help.

Hi everyone. I am new to this forum and have very basic HTML knowledge. I've set up a page at

http://www.freudiansliprecording.com/thelastsupper

which, as it is coded now, automatically plays a goofy 5 second MP3 audio file when the page loads.

What I would like to do is have the page randomly choose between 2 or three different of these very short MP3 audio clips and play one of them (and only one of them) when a visitor first comes to this page.

Can anyone here recommend a way for me to do this? I do not want a visible player for this randomly chosen clip.

Thank you all very, very much in advance for your help

Cheers,
Kevin