Categories: InputTypeFile

javascript InputTypeFile Description

@March 15, 2008, 1:22 a.m.

input (type="file")

Firefox/Netscape/NN 3 IE 4 Chrome/Safari/DOM 1

The fileUpload object is a form control generated with an input element whose type attribute is set to "file". The "fileUpload" term does not appear in scripts, but it is the way Netscape casually referred to this object when it was first scriptable.

To submit a file, the form element should have its method attribute set to POST and its enctype attribute set to multipart/form-data. But you also need some server programming to process the incoming data correctly.

HTML Equivalent

<input type="file">

Object Model Reference

[window.]document.formName.elementName
[window.]document.forms[i].elements[i]
[window.]document.getElementById("elementID")

Object-Specific Properties

Object-Specific Methods

handleEvent[ ]

select( )

Object-Specific Event Handler Properties

Handler	Firefox/Netscape/NN	IE	Chrome/Safari/DOM
onblur	3	4	2
onchange	3	4	2
onclick	6	4	2
onfocus	3	4	2
onkeydown	6	4	n/a
onkeypress	6	4	n/a
onkeyup	6	4	n/a
onmousedown	6	4	2
onmousemove	6	4	2
onmouseout	6	4	2
onmouseover	6	4	2
onmouseup	6	4	2
onselect	3	4	2

javascript InputTypeCheckbox handleEvent[ ]

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