alternate to onchange event in <input type='file' />

Question

Seems really a simple thing but can\'t figure it out. I\'ve been using the onchange event on element and it works well. Once the user browses and selects a file, I get the

Answer 1

You can just remove the input and create an identical one with javascript - the new one will be empty.

(edited answer to be straight to the point, comments are irrelevant now)