Using a graphic instead of the "Browse" button

[laredotornado@zipmail.com]

Hello,

Is it possible, instead of having the button "Browse" for the HTML
<input type="file"> element, to have a graphic in its place? How would
this be done?

Thanks, - Dave

[David Dorward]

Re: Using a graphic instead of the &quot;Browse&qu ot; button

laredotornado@z ipmail.com wrote:
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> Is it possible, instead of having the button "Browse" for the HTML
> <input type="file"> element, to have a graphic in its place?[/color]

No... at least not consistently and not in a way which would not render the
button entirely unusable by some users.

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[Toby Inkster]

Re: Using a graphic instead of the &quot;Browse&qu ot; button

laredotornado wrote:
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> How would this be done?[/color]

Can't.

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[Madguy]

Re: Using a graphic instead of the &quot;Browse&qu ot; button

You might not be able to...

But for submit button you can do like this.

<BUTTON name="submit" value="submit" type="submit">
Any Text If Need <IMG src="ie.gif" alt="wow">
</BUTTON>

Check in www.w3c.org and you might find a way......

/Cheers,
-MadGuy

[Madguy]

Re: Using a graphic instead of the &quot;Browse&qu ot; button

Ah... for some it's working it seems.. check this page out.. you'll
survive...

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#edef-INPUT

/Cheers,
-MadGuy

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Re: Using a graphic instead of the &quot;Browse&qu ot; button

Madguy wrote:
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> You might not be able to...[/color]

You can't.
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> But for submit button you can do like this.[/color]

Why would that be the least relevant to the question that was asked?

But if it's relevant to _you_, you should know that all attempts to
replace a normal submit button by some graphic are more or less
problematic. You seem to have chosen something in the "more" category:
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> <BUTTON name="submit" value="submit" type="submit">
> Any Text If Need <IMG src="ie.gif" alt="wow">
> </BUTTON>[/color]

The <button> element is _incorrectly_ implemented in Internet Explorer.
This alone is a good reason to avoid it. Some browsers do not implement
<button> at all.
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> Check in www.w3c.org and you might find a way......[/color]

They don't warn about flaws in implementations very much.

[Madguy]

Re: Using a graphic instead of the &quot;Browse&qu ot; button


Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
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> But if it's relevant to _you_, you should know that all attempts to
> replace a normal submit button by some graphic are more or less
> problematic. You seem to have chosen something in the "more" category:[/color]

Initial problem is about possibility..
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> > <BUTTON name="submit" value="submit" type="submit">
> > Any Text If Need <IMG src="ie.gif" alt="wow">
> > </BUTTON>[/color]
>
> The <button> element is _incorrectly_ implemented in Internet Explorer.
> This alone is a good reason to avoid it. Some browsers do not implement
> <button> at all.[/color]

As long as question is about possibily of doing that, my answer should
be correct. .where as your reply focus on compatibility and browser
implementatiion s. well... for that you could use JavaScript and get the
browser version and make some alternative depending on the browser..

/Cheers,

-MadGuy

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Re: Using a graphic instead of the &quot;Browse&qu ot; button

Madguy wrote:
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> As long as question is about possibily of doing that,[/color]

It wasn't, as I explained.

You _still_ haven't apparently read the question, which was clearly
formulated and which is well reflected on the Subject line.
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> my answer should be correct.[/color]

It wouldn't be, even if the question had been what you seem to think.
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> where as your reply focus on compatibility and browser
> implementatiion s. well... for that you could use JavaScript and get the
> browser version and make some alternative depending on the browser..[/color]

You seem to aim at creating problems with pseudo-solutions to problems
that you try to create in answering question that were not asked.

[Madguy]

Re: Using a graphic instead of the &quot;Browse&qu ot; button

i'm sorry.. but still i dont see anything relative to what you say and
any thing mis-mathching to what i said, in the original message. this
may be either your or mine perceptual error.

/Cheers,
-MadGuy

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Re: Using a graphic instead of the &quot;Browse&qu ot; button

Madguy wrote:
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> well... for that you could use JavaScript and get the
> browser version[/color]

Not in my browser, you won't.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

[Madguy]

Re: Using a graphic instead of the &quot;Browse&qu ot; button

>Not in my browser, you won't.

For that also you could give a condition.. (to trace the browsers which
dont support that)....

:D

/Cheers,
-MadGuy

[Robi]

Re: Using a graphic instead of the &quot;Browse&qu ot; button

David Dorward wrote in message news:dkpmml$mtj $1$8300dec7@new s.demon.co.uk.. .[color=blue]
> laredotornado at zipmail.com wrote:
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>> Is it possible, instead of having the button "Browse" for the HTML
>> <input type="file"> element, to have a graphic in its place?[/color]
>
> No... at least not consistently and not in a way which would not render the
> button entirely unusable by some users.[/color]

http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/inputfile.html

it uses Javascript, although if someone has javascript disabled,
it only would look somewhat awkward.

Just remember, it's a quirk