Like a lot of people, I'd like to customize the ugly input type=file, and I know that it can't be done without some hacks and/or javascript. But, the thing is that in my case the upload file buttons are just for uploading images (jpeg|jpg|png|gif), so I was wondering if I could use a "clickable" image which would act exactly as an input type file (show the dialog box, and same $_FILE on submitted page).
I found some workaround here, and this interesting one too (but does not work on Chrome =/).
What do you guys do when you want to add some style to your file buttons? If you have any point of view about it, just hit the answer button ;)
This works really well for me:
.image-upload>input {
display: none;
}
<div class="image-upload">
<label for="file-input">
<img src="https://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/dtafalonso/android-lollipop/128/Downloads-icon.png"/>
</label>
<input id="file-input" type="file" />
</div>
Basically the for attribute of the label makes it so that clicking the label is the same as clicking the specified input.
Also, the display property set to none makes it so that the file input isn't rendered at all, hiding it nice and clean.
Tested in Chrome but according to the web should work on all major browsers. :)
EDIT:
Added JSFiddle here: https://jsfiddle.net/c5s42vdz/
Actually it can be done in pure css and it's pretty easy...
HTML Code
<label class="filebutton">
Browse For File!
<span><input type="file" id="myfile" name="myfile"></span>
</label>
CSS Styles
label.filebutton {
width:120px;
height:40px;
overflow:hidden;
position:relative;
background-color:#ccc;
}
label span input {
z-index: 999;
line-height: 0;
font-size: 50px;
position: absolute;
top: -2px;
left: -700px;
opacity: 0;
filter: alpha(opacity = 0);
-ms-filter: "alpha(opacity=0)";
cursor: pointer;
_cursor: hand;
margin: 0;
padding:0;
}
The idea is to position the input absolutely inside your label. set the font size of the input to something large, which will increase the size of the "browse" button. It then takes some trial and error using the negative left / top properties to position the input browse button behind your label.
When positioning the button, set the alpha to 1. When you've finished set it back to 0 (so you can see what you're doing!)
Make sure you test across browsers because they'll all render the input button a slightly different size.
Great solution by #hardsetting,
But I made some improvements to make it work with Safari(5.1.7) in windows
.image-upload > input {
visibility:hidden;
width:0;
height:0
}
<div class="image-upload">
<label for="file-input">
<img src="https://via.placeholder.com/300x300.png?text=UPLOAD" style="pointer-events: none"/>
</label>
<input id="file-input" type="file" />
</div>
I have used visibility: hidden, width:0 instead of display: none for safari issue and added pointer-events: none in img tag to make it working if input file type tag is in FORM tag.
Seems working for me in all major browsers.
Hope it helps someone.
A much better way than writing JS is to use native,
and it turns to be lighter than what was suggested:
<label>
<img src="my-image.png">
<input type="file" name="myfile" style="display:none">
</label>
This way the label is automatically connected to the input that is hidden.
Clicking on the label is like clicking on the field.
You can replace image automatically with newly selected image.
<div class="image-upload">
<label for="file-input">
<img id="previewImg" src="https://icon-library.net/images/upload-photo-icon/upload-photo-icon-21.jpg" style="width: 100px; height: 100px;" />
</label>
<input id="file-input" type="file" onchange="previewFile(this);" style="display: none;" />
</div>
<script>
function previewFile(input){
var file = $("input[type=file]").get(0).files[0];
if(file){
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(){
$("#previewImg").attr("src", reader.result);
}
reader.readAsDataURL(file);
}
}
</script>
I would use SWFUpload or Uploadify. They need Flash but do everything you want without troubles.
Any <input type="file"> based workaround that tries to trigger the "open file" dialog by means other than clicking on the actual control could be removed from browsers for security reasons at any time. (I think in the current versions of FF and IE, it is not possible any more to trigger that event programmatically.)
This is my method if i got your point
HTML
<label for="FileInput">
<img src="tools/img/upload2.png" style="cursor:pointer" onmouseover="this.src='tools/img/upload.png'" onmouseout="this.src='tools/img/upload2.png'" alt="Injaz Msila" style="float:right;margin:7px" />
</label>
<form action="upload.php">
<input type="file" id="FileInput" style="cursor: pointer; display: none"/>
<input type="submit" id="Up" style="display: none;" />
</form>
jQuery
<script type="text/javascript">
$( "#FileInput" ).change(function() {
$( "#Up" ).click();
});
</script>
I have had lots of issues with hidden and not visible inputs over the past decade sometimes things are way simpler than we think.
I have had a little wish with IE 5,6,7,8 and 9 for not supporting the opacity and thus the file input would cover the upload image however the following css code has resolved the issue.
-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=0)";
filter: alpha(opacity=0);
The following snipped is tested on chrome, IE 5,6,7,8,9,10 the only issue in IE 5 is that it does not support auto margin.
Run the snippet simply copy and paste the CSS and HTML modify the size as you like.
.file-upload{
height:100px;
width:100px;
margin:40px auto;
border:1px solid #f0c0d0;
border-radius:100px;
overflow:hidden;
position:relative;
}
.file-upload input{
position:absolute;
height:400px;
width:400px;
left:-200px;
top:-200px;
background:transparent;
opacity:0;
-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=0)";
filter: alpha(opacity=0);
}
.file-upload img{
height:70px;
width:70px;
margin:15px;
}
<div class="file-upload">
<!--place upload image/icon first !-->
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/dy62M.png" />
<!--place input file last !-->
<input type="file" name="somename" />
</div>
its really simple you can try this:
$("#image id").click(function(){
$("#input id").click();
});
You can put an image instead, and do it like this:
HTML:
<img src="/images/uploadButton.png" id="upfile1" style="cursor:pointer" />
<input type="file" id="file1" name="file1" style="display:none" />
JQuery:
$("#upfile1").click(function () {
$("#file1").trigger('click');
});
CAVEAT:
In IE9 and IE10 if you trigger the onclick in a file input via javascript the form gets flagged as 'dangerous' and cannot be submmited with javascript, no sure if it can be submitted traditionaly.
The input itself is hidden with CSS visibility:hidden.
Then you can have whatever element you whish - anchor or image.., when the anchor/image is clicked, trigger a click on the hidden input field - the dialog box for selecting a file will appear.
EDIT: Actually it works in Chrome and Safari, I just noticed that is not the case in FF4Beta
Working Code:
just hide input part and do like this.
<div class="ImageUpload">
<label for="FileInput">
<img src="../../img/Upload_Panel.png" style="width: 18px; margin-top: -316px; margin-left: 900px;"/>
</label>
<input id="FileInput" type="file" onchange="readURL(this,'Picture')" style="cursor: pointer; display: none"/>
</div>
form input[type="file"] {
display: none;
}
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Simple File Upload</title>
<meta name="" content="">
</head>
<body>
<form action="upload.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
Select image to upload:
<label for="fileToUpload">
<img src="http://s3.postimg.org/mjzvuzi5b/uploader_image.png" />
</label>
<input type="File" name="fileToUpload" id="fileToUpload">
<input type="submit" value="Upload Image" name="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
RUN SNIPPET or Just copy the above code and execute. You will get what you wanted. Very simple and effective without javascript. Enjoy!!!
<script type="text/javascript">
function upl() {
var fileSelector = document.createElement('input');
fileSelector.setAttribute('type', 'file');
fileSelector.setAttribute('name', 'uploimg');
fileSelector.setAttribute('accept', 'image/*');
fileSelector.click();
fileSelector.style.display = "none";
fileSelector.onchange = function() {
document.getElementById("indicator").innerHTML = "Uploaded";
};
document.getElementById("par_form").appendChild(fileSelector);
}
</script>
<form id="par_form">
<img src="image_url" onclick="upl()"><br>
<span id="indicator"></span><br>
<input type="submit">
</form>
Why am I getting broken links in just a single section of my website, hosted on Github pages? The webiste is lanl.github.io/LaGriT . The relevant part of the HTML layout file looks like this:
<div id="top_right">
Home <br>
<div class="grid" id="searchBar">
<div>
<div id="search">
<form role="search" method="get" action="{{ site.baseurl }}//pages/search">
<input id="searchString" name="searchString"
placeholder="Enter text here" type="text">
<input id="searchButton" name="googleSearchName" type="button" value="Search">
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
The corresponding part of the CSS file looks like this:
#top_right {
position:absolute;
top:20px; right:200px;
width:400px;
background:#000;
}
If you use your browser's developer tools and inspect some elements, you will see that the <div id="header_wrap"> overlays (is on top of) the <div id="top_right">.
DOM elements are stacked based on the order they appear in the page source; later elements are put on top of earlier elements.
The easiest way to fix that is to set a higher z-index on top_right.
#top_right {
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
right: 200px;
width: 400px;
background: #000;
z-index: 100; /* <----- */
}
You could also change the order of the elements declaration, for example put your top_right div at the end of the HTML source so it is on the top of the z-index stack. Since you're using position: absolute it shouldn't matter where it appears in the source, but it will change the tab order, so that may not be desireable.
I have a site (www.jamesalder.co.uk) which is not rendering properly in IE8 and below.
Here it is in IE8:
And in IE9 and everything else:
As you can see, the search box has moved from top right to the wrong place.
The html for the search box is:
<div id="header">
<img src="/media/header_images/ts-hutton_2.jpg" title="Victorian Paintings at James Alder Fine Art" alt="Victorian Paintings at James Alder Fine Art" "="">
<form id="search-form" action="/search">
<label id="search-label">Search the Site</label>
<input type="image" src="/static/images/sign-up.gif" value="search" id="search-button">
<input type="text" name="q" id="search-input">
</form>
</div>
It seems as though it is totally missing out the following CSS, in that if I disable this CSS, it has the same effect:
#search-form {
position: absolute;
right: 0;
top: 0;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.6);
padding: 3px;
}
Does IE9 have some kind of problem with CSS on forms? Should I put it in a div?
As for the images below that which have decided not to float any more, I have no idea.
Are there any best practices or good resources about getting sites to behave across older versions of IE, or should I just use conditionals?
It was actually caused by malformed html. I had tags which looked like this:
<img src="/media/homepage_images/all-paintings-sale.jpg"
alt="All Victorian Paintings for Sale"
title="All Victorian Paintings for Sale" ">
Notice the " at the end, which was causing everything following it to be treated as text.
Bizarrely, IE9 and everything else fixed the error automatically but IE8 and below didn't.
It may cause by <form>.
Put your <form id="search-form" action="/search"> element in a div.
<div id="header">
<img src="..."/>
<div id="search-form">
<form action="/search"></form>
</div>
</div>
Try this please.
Hi all I am currently trying to develop an HTML5 and CSS3 website. What I want to be able to do is when a user hovers over an input area of the website I want to be able to display a little pop up message next to the mouse position to display information to the user.
Is this possible, if not with HTML5 and CSS3 but using something else.
Here is a very simplistic solution I use as a base with my forms.
<style>
.help {
background-color: #FFFF73;
border-radius: 10px;
display: none;
opacity: 0.9;
padding: 10px;
z-index: 100;
}
.help_link:hover + span {
display: inline;
}
</style>
<form>
<label>Input: <input type="text" name="text" /></label> Help <span class="help">Some help here on this input field.</span><br />
<label>Input: <input type="text" name="text2" /></label> Help <span class="help">Some help here on this input field.</span><br />
</form>
The usual disclaimers apply: this is a base, will not work in IE without an external library to add advanced selectors, border-radius not supported in Firefox 3.5, etc.
<input type="text" title="info for user here"/>
You can hover over an input text field and the title will allow a tool-tip type message pop up.
I've done this before but for some reason im trying to right now and im using fieldset to display the background image and i can only get it to look nice in firefox. Whats a good cross-browser solution to adding a background image to a textbox.
example i was trying
<div class="subscribe">
<form method="get" id="searcform" action="">
<fieldset class="search">
<input type="text" class="box" value="Subscribe to Email Newsletter" />
<button class="btn" title="Subscribe">Subscribe</button>
</fieldset>
</form>
</div>
I'm not sure precisely what element you mean, but the following should work:
input[type=text],
textarea {
background: #fff url(path/to/image.png) 0 0 no-repeat;
}
Simply make your input transparent and place inside a container div.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/LRWWH/
Cross browser friendly.