jQuery how to check if uploaded file is an image without checking extensions?

Question

Newbie here. The problem is that I currently have written a method which checks uploaded file size and extension in order to validate it. However, checking extensions is not a s

Answer 1

If anyone comes here who is using jQuery Validator, a simple method would be:

jQuery.validator.addMethod(
    "onlyimages",
    function (value, element) {
        if (this.optional(element) || !element.files || !element.files[0]) {
            return true;
        } else {
            var fileType = element.files[0].type;
            var isImage = /^(image)\//i.test(fileType);
            return isImage;
        }
    },
    'Sorry, we can only accept image files.'
);

which is then added to the .validate() function.