[thelist] File button

Anthony Baratta anthony at baratta.com
Tue Nov 7 10:39:34 CST 2006


Nope. Browser security issue. You wouldn't want someone to try and cherry pick a file from your hard drive.

-----Original message-----
From: Daniel Kessler danielk at umd.edu
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:30:21 -0800
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] File button

> I have a form where the user can select a file to upload.  When the  
> user wants to edit the information, I refill the form, but it seems  
> that there's no way to refill that button/file that had the upload  
> information.  In replace of that, I put in an inactive text field  
> with the name of the file in it.  Is there a way to instead fill in  
> the file name in the button/field so that they can click browse and  
> select something different if needed?
> 
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