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Hi guys

I want to ask you a very simple question

Is there a property for the <input type="file"> that allow to set only an extension (for example .doc or .xls) that will appear in the box of the files called by the button browse of the <input type="file">?

Thanks in advance

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Originally Posted by elektroman

Hi guys

I want to ask you a very simple question

Is there a property for the <input type="file"> that allow to set only an extension (for example .doc or .xls) that will appear in the box of the files called by the button browse of the <input type="file">?

Thanks in advance

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Hi the documentation says it could be done via ACCEPT parameter

HTML Code:

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<input type="file" value="GetTime" accept="image/gif,image/jpeg" />

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But obviously browsers do not support this feature (yet).
If you want to learn more you could try http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/file.html
ther is also a workaround script for this problem you might find useful..

Good luck :)
Yanco

I would suggest doing this on the server-side rather than the client-side. You can just read the file extension and accept or reject it.

Here is a PHP example.

PHP Code:

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<?php
  $ext = strtolower(substr(strrchr($file, "."), 1));
  if($ext = "doc" || $ext = "xls"){
    // upload
  }
  else{
    echo "Invalid file type.";
  }
?>

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