jQuery: get the file name selected from <input type=“file” />

Question

This code should work in IE (don\'t even test it in Firefox), but it doesn\'t. What I want is to display the name of the attached file. Any help?

Answer 1

The simplest way is to simply use the following line of jquery, using this you don't get the /fakepath nonsense, you straight up get the file that was uploaded:

$('input[type=file]')[0].files[0]; // This gets the file
$('#idOfFileUpload')[0].files[0]; // This gets the file with the specified id

Some other useful commands are:

To get the name of the file:

$('input[type=file]')[0].files[0].name; // This gets the file name

To get the type of the file:

If I were to upload a PNG, it would return image/png

$("#imgUpload")[0].files[0].type

To get the size (in bytes) of the file:

$("#imgUpload")[0].files[0].size

Also you don't have to use these commands on('change', you can get the values at any time, for instance you may have a file upload and when the user clicks upload, you simply use the commands I listed.