[thelist] Styling <input type="file">

[Mark Howells]

> I have a problem whereby I want to style a file upload input box. It 
> seems
> that it just will not play ball. Every time I set the border etc. it 
> goes
> weird - and there does not seem to be a way to style the button.

This is a question which has been asked several thousand times here and 
in the CSS Discuss list!  My personal opinion and the general consensus 
is that the hack is so complex and so prone to failure that it's not a 
good idea to even try.  For one thing, there are several browsers where 
NONE of the non-text fields in a form can be styled using CSS (and I'm 
talking about newer browsers, not older).  You would be better to 
re-consider your design methodology, and to accept that there are some 
elements of the page which are better left under the control of the 
browser.

Regards
Mark Howells
http://www.mark.ac/