How to reset selected file with input tag file type in Angular 2?

Question

This is how my input tag looks like:

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Answer 1

One way to achieve it is to wrap your input in <form> tag and reset it.

I'm not considering attaching thr form to NgForm or FormControl either.

@Component({
  selector: 'form-component',
  template: `
    <form #form>
      <input type="file" placeholder="File Name" name="filename">
    </form>
    <button (click)="reset()">Reset</button>
`
})
class FormComponent {



  @ViewChild('form') form;


  reset() {
    this.form.nativeElement.reset()
  }
}

https://plnkr.co/edit/Ulqh2l093LV6GlQWKkUA?p=preview

Answer 2

I am using a a very simple aproach. After a file has been uploaded, i shortly remove the input control, using *ngIf. That will cause the input field being removed from the dom and re-added, consequencely it is a new control, and therefore it is emply:

showUploader: boolean = true;

async upload($event) {
  await dosomethingwiththefile();
  this.showUploader = false;
  setTimeout(() =>{ this.showUploader = true }, 100);
}

<input type="file" (change)="upload($event)" *ngIf="showUploader">

Answer 3

If you are facing issue with ng2-file-upload,

HTML:

<input type="file" name="myfile" ` **#activeFrameinputFile** `ng2FileSelect [uploader]="frameUploader" (change)="frameUploader.uploadAll()" />

component

import { Component, OnInit, ElementRef, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';

@ViewChild('`**activeFrameinputFile**`') `**InputFrameVariable**`: ElementRef;

this.frameUploader.onSuccessItem = (item, response, status, headers) => {
    this.`**InputFrameVariable**`.nativeElement.value = '';
   };

Answer 4

You can use ViewChild to access the input in your component. First, you need to add #someValue to your input so you can read it in the component:

<input #myInput type="file" placeholder="File Name" name="filename" (change)="onChange($event)">

Then in your component you need to import ViewChild from @angular/core:

import { ViewChild } from '@angular/core';

Then you use ViewChild to access the input from template:

@ViewChild('myInput')
myInputVariable: ElementRef;

Now you can use myInputVariable to reset the selected file because it's a reference to input with #myInput, for example create method reset() that will be called on click event of your button:

reset() {
    console.log(this.myInputVariable.nativeElement.files);
    this.myInputVariable.nativeElement.value = "";
    console.log(this.myInputVariable.nativeElement.files);
}

First console.log will print the file you selected, second console.log will print an empty array because this.myInputVariable.nativeElement.value = ""; deletes selected file(s) from the input. We have to use this.myInputVariable.nativeElement.value = ""; to reset the value of the input because input's FileList attribute is readonly, so it is impossible to just remove item from array. Here's working Plunker.

Answer 5

I think its simple, use #variable

<input #variable type="file" placeholder="File Name" name="filename" (change)="onChange($event); variable.value='' ">
<button>Reset</button>

"variable.value = null" option also available

Answer 6

template:

<input [(ngModel)]="componentField" type="file" (change)="fileChange($event)" placeholder="Upload file">

component:

fileChange(event) {
        alert(this.torrentFileValue);
        this.torrentFileValue = '';
    }
}