File Open Dialog Box

[Pai]

Hello there,

I would like to open a "Chose File " dialog box using javascript.

I am using C# as the server side programming language.

I have tried <Input type="file" tag, and then "showModalDialo g".

any help please.

Kind Regards,
Pai

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: File Open Dialog Box

spai@immunetole rance.org (Pai) writes:
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> I would like to open a "Chose File " dialog box using javascript.[/color]
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> I am using C# as the server side programming language.
> I have tried <Input type="file" tag, and then "showModalDialo g".[/color]

That would be serverside, and will ofcourse not work on the client.
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> any help please.[/color]

If you have
<form id="foo">
<input type="file" name="bar">
</foo>
then in IE, you can activeate the file input by simulating
a click on the input: document.forms['foo'].elements['bar'].click()

It doesn't work in Mozilla or Opera.

/L
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[Srikanth Pai]

Re: File Open Dialog Box

hello Irn,

Thanks for your reply, on the devdex.com forum.

Actually, when I click on tbe browse button <input type=file name=bar>.

I would like the selected file name to be inseted in a text field which
is placed next to the button.

I tried using a onclick event but it gets fired before the dialog box is
displayed so i cannot retrieve the name

<input type =text name=mytext>
<input type=file name=bar onclick='fn_tes t()'>.

function fn_text()
{
var my_name = '';
document.form1. mytext.value = document.form1. bar.click();
}

Any Suggestions please.

Kind Regards,
Pai.




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[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: File Open Dialog Box

Srikanth Pai <spai@immunetol erance.org> writes:
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> hello Irn,[/color]

That would be LRN (my initials) :)
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> Thanks for your reply, on the devdex.com forum.[/color]

I don't know what the devdex.com forum is, this is a Usenet newsgroup
and it is not affiliated with devdex.com.
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> Actually, when I click on tbe browse button <input type=file name=bar>.
> I would like the selected file name to be inseted in a text field which
> is placed next to the button.[/color]

You can do this with the onchange handler on the file input. See below
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> I tried using a onclick event but it gets fired before the dialog box is
> displayed so i cannot retrieve the name
>
> <input type =text name=mytext>
> <input type=file name=bar onclick='fn_tes t()'>.[/color]

<form ...>
<input type="text" name="mytext">
<input type="file" name="bar"
onchange="this. form.elements.m ytext.value = this.value">
</form>

/L
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[Srikanth Pai]

Re: File Open Dialog Box


Hello irn,

<input type="file">

does not have a event onchange.

Kind Regards,
Pai.


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[HikksNotAtHome]

Re: File Open Dialog Box

In article <smnx8jvh.fsf@h otpop.com>, Lasse Reichstein Nielsen <lrn@hotpop.com >
writes:
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><form ...>
><input type="text" name="mytext">
><input type="file" name="bar"
> onchange="this. form.elements.m ytext.value = this.value">
></form>[/color]

Works in IE6.0, Opera 7, fails in Mozilla 1.4, Firebird 0.6.1and Netscape 7.02.


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[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: File Open Dialog Box

hikksnotathome@ aol.com (HikksNotAtHome ) writes:
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> Works in IE6.0, Opera 7, fails in Mozilla 1.4, Firebird 0.6.1and
> Netscape 7.02.[/color]

True. Since my first hint was IE only, I didn't say that the second
was only tested in IE6 and Opera 7. By mistake.

/L
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