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 could not fire change event second time on the file input, but you can fire change event on the span. Below works in chrome and ff. I didn't check in IE. $('#change_span').bind('change',function(){ alert($('#file_1').val()) })