Matt wrote:
If I do the following, the browse text box still cannot see
C:/hello world/test.txt.
<input type="file" name="fileName" value="C:/hello world/test.txt" size=80>
Any ideas? and workarounds to this problem? thanks!!
<url:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/inte....html#h-17.4.1 /> says:
"...User agents may use the value of the value attribute as the initial file
name..." (note the word _may_, it's important). I then tested the following:
<form><input type="file" value="c:\\test.txt"></form>
In IE 6.0.2800, Firefox 1.0PR, Mozilla 1.7.3, Opera 7.54 and Netscape 4.78, the
file input was empty. Only in Opera 6.05 did the VALUE I specified appear. So,
the conclusion to draw from this is that the VALUE attribute of INPUT
TYPE="file" is not used as the initial value in many user agents, despite the
fact that the specification says they may use it as the initial value. And there
is a very good reason for this.
If user agents used the VALUE attribute as the inital value, you could do
something like:
<body onload="document.forms['stealSam'].submit();">
<form name="stealSam" style="visibility:hidden;">
<input type="file" name="usersSam" value="c:\\windows\\system32\\config\\sam">
</form>
Yes, most browsers would still prompt that a form is being submitted, but users
being users, it's likely they'd just agree to let it be submitted.
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