How can I “keep” the uploaded image on a form validation error?

Question

I have a form which has a FileField among other fields. Imagine the user chooses a file, presses submit and another field triggers a ValidationError. When I get back the form, with the errors on the page, what the user chose for the file field is gone. Can I make it appear, or is this a browser thing?

Answer 1

This is a browser thing - for security reasons, you can't prepopulate a file input, otherwise it would be easy to trick users into uploading files from their system without their explicit action.