[thelist] Form CSS styles
Andrew Clover
and at doxdesk.com
Fri Jan 18 11:01:06 CST 2002
> i tried to do the same thing awhile ago and found that ie wouldn't upload a
> file if the click event was fired programmatically to open the browse
> dialog, as opposed to the user clicking on the file input's "browse..."
> button.
Oh, crap on a plate, you're right - at least in IE5.x/Win. That makes it
pretty pointless, eh? :-(
You can bring a browse-dialogue-box up with a click(), but if the user
selects a filename from it it makes the form reset-instead-of-submit
when submitted. This is really annoying.
> i'm guessing this is some sort of security thing.
You'd think so, except -
- it's a very strange way of enforcing it, why not simply refuse to open
the browse dialogue, like the other browsers?;
- it's not really any kind of a security risk, as it's pretty clear the
user is choosing a file to upload;
- it's completely out of character for Microsoft. ;-)
> the main problem area [with styling selects], of course, being borders.
Yes. Maybe now my upload-styling script is clearly of no use I should
instead direct my efforts to one which replaces IE's <select> with a DHTML
version you could style more easily!
--
Andrew Clover
mailto:and at doxdesk.com
http://and.doxdesk.com/
More information about the thelist
mailing list