It is possible to get the path of image path, when uploaded using file element?
Basically, I want to grab the clients path and show it on the page so that user can be certain of what image he chosed, before uploading it.
Any alternative suggestion are welcomed.
Its browser security -- you cannot get access to the full path on the user's filesystem. As a web-app, you only get access to the actual file and its name. Afaik, you can do this by writing a browser plugin, but with normal security privileges, you cannot.
are you meaning you want to grab the image, or just grab the path?
if you want the path you could use: $('#uploadinput').val();
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I want to create a text file using JavaScript and store in a particular location in my system, Suppose I want to store in:
C:\Users\RAJ\Desktop
I have found an interesting API Link
It creates and simply download the file but I can not specify the location.
please guide me how I can download into a particular location?
Note: If a file already exists in same name then it should replace with the new file.
This activity is prevented due to security. Consider if the browser was allowed to be scripted to download and replace any file on your computer. For this reason, the browser will either prompt or use the Users defined preference to download content to a specific folder. You cannot script where a download will go on the users computer.
I need to let the user browse a absolute file path and set that path into a text-box.
Please note: I know you don´t need the path to upload the file and I will not actually upload the file. This is for internal use in an intranet where the user needs to enter a path to a file.
What I need is a button that opens a browser and a text box that shows the result. Sound easy but the input file control only gives the name of the file and I cannot find a solution.
This is, alas, not possible for security reasons. Javascript has very limited access to the filesystem.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535128.aspx for IE specific workaround, and http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/ for info about what is coming in html5 wrt. file uploads.
I want my browser to open my local images and to place them at the center of my browser. The only way I could think of is by coding an HTML+CSS file, but I don't want to use PHP or ASP.NET cause I don't want to run a server. So javascript is a solution to this.
So, is there a way for an HTML+Javascript file to display a list of my local files, and after clicking at the image I want, the image name to be saved to a variable in order to display this image to my html with img src using the css style I want?
Thanks in advance!
This is only possible with some kind of special file system that is based on XML (I've seen this once)
You need to create a XML index file (or some other format you can get with XMLHTTP Web Requests and parse with JavaScript) that contains all information about the images (System location, maybe some kind of ID, alt/title attributes etc.)
Then you load that file with a XMLHTTP Request, parse the data and print it as HTML with correct links to the images.
JavaScript itself can't read the file system, it can request single files only
Accessing local filesystem from Javascript inside a browser is a pretty taboo thing mostly. See this related question.
For a website I am working on, I need to allow users to be able to specify the path to a file on a network drive, so I simply tried using a file field and having javascript get the value, however because of browser security I cannot get this path.
Is there anyway to get around this browser security and allow users to browse to the file on the network drive and select it to specify the path?
Thanks,
Alex.
AFAIK this is impossible with javascript. Flash also forbids from accessing the client file paths. ActiveX could be used but it will work only in IE and must be installed on the client computer.
I need to have my user send the file path to the webserver. For this i'm trying to use input file type so that user can select the file. Please note that I don't want do uploading the file. I just need the location of some file. So user should be able to do that using browse option. I know that due to some security reasons in browsers, full path is not sent to server. But can we acheive this some way. I've observed that using input type=file after user selects some file using browse option (as it is not possible to select folder), the Firefox sends the server just the filename and IE sends fullpath of file including file name.
Please note that this website is used internally so it is not a security problem at all, so don't bother about security and all.
is there anyway we can acheive this?
Thanks in advance,
Sreed
You need to use something that has access to the filesystem. BY DESIGN javascript/html cannot do this. You need to use flash, java or a browser plug-in.
No, sadly I don't think there is.
All modern browsers will send a C:\Fakepath path. To my knowledge, this behaviour can not be changed for local networks in any browser.
I'm not sure what the state of things is for Flash-based uploaders like SWFUpload or Uploadify. Flash traditionally gives more control over such data than the native browser controls. (Edit: Uploadify seems to give you the file path. See this question: How can I get the uploaded file details from uploadify after completion however, this of course is after a completed upload, which is not what you want.)
A Java applet based solution will be able to do this, but I expect the effort to implement this is huge.
I would consider using a normal text file, and asking the user to just copy+paste the correct path.
Browsers do not let you save or even see the full file path to a selected file from the <input type="file" /> form element. I would recommend Flash or Java for your needs. You could also have the user manually type in the full path...just a thought.