// Taken from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3226971/how-to-load-the-contents-in-the-text-file-or-the-html-codes-in-a-html-file-to-a function download_to_textbox(url, el) { $.get(url, null, function(data) { el.val(data); }, "text"); } function preview_layout(){ $('#preview_txt').html("Loading..."); var list = ['grid', 'hs', 'vs', 'hm', 'vm', 'ff', 'fs', 'fw']; var params = {}; list.forEach(function(v){ params[v] = $('*[name="'+v+'"]').val() }); params.grid = params.grid.split('\n').join('\r\n'); $.post('/generate-layout/', params, function(data){ $('#preview_txt').html(data); }, 'text'); }