Get '<input type="file">.value' with Internet Explorer

[Jesper Hermansen]

Hi!

I'm making a system that will generate Winamp-playlists.
To make it easy for the user to add a file to the list, I'm using <input
type="file">.

The problem with this is that I only get the filename, not the path,
which is necessary in my situation.

I cracked the problem in Firefox:

<snip>
function get_id ($id) {
if (document.all && document.getEle mentById) {
return document.all($i d);
} else if (!document.all && document.getEle mentById) {
return document.getEle mentById($id);
} else {
return false;
}
}


function fullpath () {
$file = get_id('file');
$hiddenfile = get_id('hiddenf ile');
$hiddenfile.val ue = $file.value;
}

<form action="save.ph p" method="post" onsubmit="fullp ath();">
File: <input id="file" type="file" />
<input type="hidden" name="file" id="hiddenfile " />
<input type="submit" value="Add" />
</form>

</snip>

But this doesn't seem to work in Internet Explorer and Opera...

Is there another way to get the absolute path from an <input type="file"> ??

[Grunken]

Re: Get '&lt;input type=&quot;file &quot;&gt;.valu e' with Internet Explorer

What Hermansen :o)

I'm not the only Dane using this group :o)

the answer is document.FORMNA ME.ELEMENTNAME. value


Spam again :o)



"Jesper Hermansen" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
news:40878c3f$0 $168$edfadb0f@d read11.news.tel e.dk...[color=blue]
> Hi!
>
> I'm making a system that will generate Winamp-playlists.
> To make it easy for the user to add a file to the list, I'm using <input
> type="file">.
>
> The problem with this is that I only get the filename, not the path,
> which is necessary in my situation.
>
> I cracked the problem in Firefox:
>
> <snip>
> function get_id ($id) {
> if (document.all && document.getEle mentById) {
> return document.all($i d);
> } else if (!document.all && document.getEle mentById) {
> return document.getEle mentById($id);
> } else {
> return false;
> }
> }
>
>
> function fullpath () {
> $file = get_id('file');
> $hiddenfile = get_id('hiddenf ile');
> $hiddenfile.val ue = $file.value;
> }
>
> <form action="save.ph p" method="post" onsubmit="fullp ath();">
> File: <input id="file" type="file" />
> <input type="hidden" name="file" id="hiddenfile " />
> <input type="submit" value="Add" />
> </form>
>
> </snip>
>
> But this doesn't seem to work in Internet Explorer and Opera...
>
> Is there another way to get the absolute path from an <input type="file">[/color]
??