In JavaScript can I make a “click” event fire programmatically for a file input element?

Question

I\'d like to make a click event fire on an tag programmatically.

Just calling click() doesn\'t seem to do anything or at lea

Answer 1

If you want the click method to work on Chrome, Firefox, etc, apply the following style to your input file. It will be perfectly hidden, it's like you do a display: none;

#fileInput {
    visibility: hidden;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: -5000px;
}

It's that simple, I tested it works!