How do you get a HTML Browse button to filter and show only images?

Question

On an HTML page, using the INPUT tag, how can you get it so that when you click the browse button that it filters for image files only? Bonus points if it can include .bmp fil

Answer 1

The accept attribute of the HTML

element is meant for that, but this optional attribute is ignored by almost all webbrowsers. The answer is Flash or Java Applet. For both there exist 3rd party programs. E.g. Uploadify, SWFUpload and JumpLoader. Uploadify has my recommendation.