Paste into input type file

[louie728]

Hello all. I have a situation with a input file type. I cannot set the .value due to security reasons and I cannot set focus to the control then do a document.execCommand("paste"); (to paste from the clipboard) because of the same reason, these two methods work fine with regular input text types. I would like to know if there is a way that I could either emulate a ctrl+V keypress as a function or maybee control the actual browser menu so that I may paste the clipboard contents...

Thank you

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

A quick "thread search" for "input file type" shows this thread:

thread215-857522

Dan

 

[louie728]

Thank you for your reply Dan, but I already went this route and the value property cannot be set on an input type=file that is why I would like to paste.

 

[adam0101]

You can't set the value of a file input. If you could, any web page could copy files from your computer without you knowing it. There used to be a hack in IE where you could set it if you switched the page to design-mode and using the "paste" method, but that has since been patched.

Adam
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