client side file browse

knuckle05 · Apr 24, 2003

Hi All,

How can I let the user select a file name from their harddrive via the browser?

I know this can be done with a Browse button, but what I'd really like to do is show a treeview like window in the browser where the user can navigate through the windows file structure. Is this possible? Thanks!

vbkris · Apr 25, 2003

NOPE!!!

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EdwardMartinIII · Apr 25, 2003

Windows (and other OS) supply that when you use the input type file:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html 
     PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN&quot;
     &quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd&quot;>[/URL]

<html xmlns=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot;[/URL] xml:lang=&quot;en&quot; lang=&quot;en&quot;>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv=&quot;Content-Type&quot; content=&quot;text/html; charset=iso-8859-1&quot;></meta>
    <title>JavaScript Sample</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form name=&quot;MainForm&quot;>
      <input type=&quot;file&quot; onchange=&quot;alert('hoo!');&quot;></input>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

Hope that helps!

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