filling in the File (textbox) field

danlagi32 · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3

Anyone who can help -

I'm trying to set the File textbox field without having to click on the browse button using the following code:

<input type="file" name="filename" value="trythis.doc" />

but the value is not put into the file textbox. Does anyone know how to manipulate the textbox field?

Thanks!

Dan Luevano

Straystudio · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 264 Location: Nord Italy

I want just to be a joker here ...

<div style="float: left/right;">
<input type="file" name="filename" value="" />
<div style="width: 60px; position:relative; top: -19px;">trythis.doc</div>
</div>

evolved in this with JavaScript Language:

<div style="float: left/right;">
<input onClick='document.getElementById("joker").style.display="none"; OtherFunctionIfAny();'
type="file" name="filename" value="" />
<div id="joker" style="width: 60px; position: relative; top: -19px;">trythis.doc</div>
</div>

danlagi32 · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3

HA HA, very funny, but not what I was looking for.

danlagi32 · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3

ok, now I'm not sure if you're being serious or not!

What I'm looking for is to be able to pass the html page a filename ("C:\SomeFolder\SomeFile.txt") into the textbox field of the <input type=File> form element, and so that when I click on submit, the filename in the box is uploaded, so that I don't have to click on the browse button to populate the textbox field. Is that what you're trying to accomplish with the code snipet?

Thanks.

Dan Luevano

mjpliv · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 402 Location: Nova Scotia

I found what may be a solution to your problem on another site.

http://forums.aspfree.com/asp-free-lounge-32/input-type-file-value-c-test-jpg-name-filename-38676.html

I tested it and it seems to work.

Straystudio · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 264 Location: Nord Italy

mmhm, I am not sure it is much possible.
We should run around the matter, by handlig Links via JavaScript.

Where the default file should go to get opened? The same window, a new one, an iframe, ...
Or something else should happen when clicking Submit, than simply opening a file.

You would it not to be lost, the capability of the INPUT TYPE="File" to call also different a file beyhond the default one, I guess ...

mjpliv · Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 402 Location: Nova Scotia

I checked the code and it still allows you to browse for a new file and replace the default value. Its actually a pretty elegant solution to the problem.

Straystudio · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 264 Location: Nord Italy

"mjpliv",
I am slow, I was still writing when You posted and I could not to be refferring to that solution.

There, just this to get corrected:

style="font-style:veranda; font-size:12px;"

into

style="font-family:verdana; font-size:12px;"

It does not exist "veranda" as font in HTML; they do exist out-door places in some houses, by the way here in Italy are really called veranda !

Besides, font-style:; can be normal or italic.

Straystudio · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 264 Location: Nord Italy