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July 16, 2004

FInding the value of a FileUpload form element using Javascript - easy? no. Well... yes!

Struggled with this one for a while tonight. If you want to read the value of a form input element for uploading files, so:

var Temp = document.FormName.FileUploadName.value

then this is wrong

<input name="FileUploadName" type="file">

you have to include value="" even though it is empty. So this is correct:

<input name="FileUploadName" type="file" value="">

Pedantic feckers....

Posted by dottie at July 16, 2004 2:38 AM