File input 'accept' attribute - is it useful?

Question

Implementing a file upload under html is fairly simple, but I just noticed that there is an \'accept\' attribute that can be added to the

Answer 1

It is supported by Chrome. It's not supposed to be used for validation, but for type hinting the OS. If you have an accept="image/jpeg" attribute in a file upload the OS can only show files of the suggested type.