How to select multiple files with <input type="file">?
- It's about javascript and htmlMask– Mask2009-10-20 08:47:26 +00:00Commented Oct 20, 2009 at 8:47
- Do you mean upload multiple files in one go (when you select one at a time and then click upload)? Or do you mean using ctrl+click to select several files in one browser window?cletus– cletus2009-10-20 09:04:54 +00:00Commented Oct 20, 2009 at 9:04
- 4You can do it with HTML5 using the multiple attribute on the input element. <input type='file' multiple=''> Here's a great fiddle that utilizes it: jsfiddle.net/0GiS0/Yvgc2Costa Michailidis– Costa Michailidis2013-07-05 22:34:22 +00:00Commented Jul 5, 2013 at 22:34
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New answer:
In HTML5 you can add the multiple attribute to select more than 1 file.
<input type="file" name="filefield" multiple> Old answer:
You can only select 1 file per
<input type="file" />. If you want to send multiple files you will have to use multiple input tags or use Flash or Silverlight.
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Fabien Ménager
Gmail uses Flash to do this
ZippyV
@Costa On the 20th of October of 2009 most browsers didn't support that feature and Niavlys already showed the html5 solution 2 years ago.
Ali
this answer is more ancient than the dinosaurs
Jean-Paul
this multiple="multiple" is not user friendly, the avarage user doesn't understand it, doesn't even know what a "ctrl button" does, and it cannot select files in different folders.
You Old Fool
if this is form is being submitted to a php form name should be
name="filefield[]" so that it returns an array |
There is also HTML5 <input type="file" multiple name="files[]" /> (specification).
Browser support is quite good on desktop (just not supported by IE 9 and prior), less good on mobile, I guess because it's harder to implement correctly depending on the platform and version.
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Ashit Vora
Not supported on IE9 and prior :(
The whole thing should look like:
<form enctype='multipart/form-data' method='POST' action='submitFormTo.php'> <input type='file' name='files[]' multiple> <button type='submit'>Submit</button> </form> Make sure you have the enctype='multipart/form-data' attribute in your <form> tag, or you can't read the files on the server side after submission!
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B''H Bi'ezras -- Boruch Hashem
unless you submit it with a websocket or ajax
This jQuery plugin (jQuery File Upload Demo) does it without flash, in the form it's using:
<input type='file' name='files[]' multiple /> 
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JerryDDG
also not supported on IE9-, github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload/wiki/…
You can do it now with HTML5
In essence you use the multiple attribute on the file input.
<input type='file' multiple> answered Jul 5, 2013 at 22:35
Costa Michailidis
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Hubert OG
What about support for this thing? Canisuse.com doesn't have the info.
Costa Michailidis
I'm not sure, I checked the same place, haha.
vladkras
FileReader doesn't have
.name property, so title in your example is always undefined: jsfiddle.net/m5jeyeyt/1
Kafaa Billahi Syahida
@HubertOG caniuse.com/input-file-multiple
Thats easy ...
<input type='file' multiple> $('#file').on('change',function(){ _readFileDataUrl(this,function(err,files){ if(err){return} console.log(files)//contains base64 encoded string array holding the image data }); }); var _readFileDataUrl=function(input,callback){ var len=input.files.length,_files=[],res=[]; var readFile=function(filePos){ if(!filePos){ callback(false,res); }else{ var reader=new FileReader(); reader.onload=function(e){ res.push(e.target.result); readFile(_files.shift()); }; reader.readAsDataURL(filePos); } }; for(var x=0;x<len;x++){ _files.push(input.files[x]); } readFile(_files.shift()); }; 2 Comments
RightHandedMonkey
This is already answered clearly. What is the need to add a javascript example?
Thomas Ludewig
cause its nice ?
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HTML5 has provided new attribute multiple for input element whose type attribute is file. So you can select multiple files and IE9 and previous versions does not support this.
NOTE: be carefull with the name of the input element. when you want to upload multiple file you should use array and not string as the value of the name attribute.
ex:
input type="file" name="myPhotos[]" multiple="multiple" and if you are using php then you will get the data in $_FILES and use var_dump($_FILES) and see output and do processing Now you can iterate over and do the rest
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HTML5 has provided new attribute multiple for input element whose type attribute is file. So you can select multiple files and IE9 and previous versions does not support this.
NOTE: be carefull with the name of the input element. when you want to upload multiple file you should use array and not string as the value of the name attribute.
ex:
<input type="file" name="myPhotos[]" multiple="multiple" /> and if you are using php then you will get the data in $_FILES and use var_dump($_FILES) and see output and do processing Now you can iterate over and do the rest
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<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <input type="file" multiple name="img[]"/> <input type="submit"> </form> <?php print_r($_FILES['img']['name']); ?> 
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Copy and paste this into your html:
<input type="file" id="files" name="files[]" multiple /> <output id="list"></output> <script> function handleFileSelect(evt) { var files = evt.target.files; // FileList object // files is a FileList of File objects. List some properties. var output = []; for (var i = 0, f; f = files[i]; i++) { output.push('<li><strong>', escape(f.name), '</strong> (', f.type || 'n/a', ') - ', f.size, ' bytes, last modified: ', f.lastModifiedDate ? f.lastModifiedDate.toLocaleDateString() : 'n/a', '</li>'); } document.getElementById('list').innerHTML = '<ul>' + output.join('') + '</ul>'; } This comes to you, through me, from this webpage: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/dndfiles/
