Check whether a directory exists or not using JavaScript [closed]

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How to check whether a directory or folder exists or not using javascript or jquery?

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You can't. If Javascript had access to the file system (either client or server), it would be a security hole.

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Do you mean Javascript running in the browser and checking a directory in the user's machine? If so, you'll have a very hard time doing this, as the browser is isolated from the computer's file system for security reasons.

It can't be done.

Good thing too -- if it could be done, there would be any number of malicious hackers using it to find out what software you've got installed, etc. (occasionally the hackers to manage to find a way through the sandbox and do manage to get at the file system, but these holes generally get closed by the browser vendors very quickly)

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JavaScript cannot access the local filesystem.