Javascript Firefox help on fileupload

[Chancellor2000]

I have the following code which works for IE. But I cannot get anything to work for Firefox.
if (document.selection) {
var inputRange = input.createTextRange();
var theend = inputRange.text.length;
inputRange.moveStart("character", theend);
inputRange.collapse();
inputRange.moveEnd("character", 1);
inputRange.select();
}

For what it is worth, input is a file upload. I just want to show the right side of the text instead of the left side of the text when it doesn't all fit in the associated textbox. The "dir" attribute simply reverses the textbox and the associated browse button.

 

[ChrisHirst]

createTextRange is a IE specific method with no Firefox or DOM equivalent.

have a look at this function see if you con modify it.

Written for a BBCode style text editor so it can insert "tags" around selected text.

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[Chancellor2000]

I have not been able to get selectionStart to work. When I use it, it bombs out when I watch it in firefox.

 

[Chancellor2000]

Firebug...that is.

 

[vacunita]

Firefox as well as most other browsers do not allow manipulation of the file input value by Javascript for security reasons.

The best you can hope for is to to just read the value and output it somewhere else as you need.





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