[thelist] Styling Input type="File"

[Richard Bennett]

In an IE only environment, you can hide the <input file> and call it's click
event from any button, like this:

<input id="fileLoader" type="file" style="visibility:hidden;"></input>
<button onclick="show()"><b>a button can contain any HTML (in
IE)</b></button>

function show(){
     fileLoader.click();
     alert(fileLoader.value)
}

Cheers,
Richard.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Backhouse" <paul.backhouse at 2cs.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 3:30 PM
Subject: [thelist] Styling Input type="File"


Hi everybody.

When using the input type="file" you get the browse button appear, but it
won't style - I'm pretty sure that CSS doesn't allow you to style it in
anyway, just wondering if anyone out there had a clever trick?

i basically want the button to be transparent.

cheers

Paul Backhouse
2Cs Communications UK Ltd
www.2cs.com
TEL: (01473) 62 22 63
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