I am trying to show the client an image which he has selected:
<input type="file" onchange="showImage(this)"/>
But I can't read the value of the input, as I checked out here. Is it possible to display the image?
In onchange
I can send the form to server and server can send the data back, but is it really necessary? Can't the client display the data without the ping-pong to the server? Is it a security issue?
You can use FileReader web-api object for this, see this snippet:
the HTML
<input id="src" type="file"/> // input you want to read from (src)
<img id="target"/> // image you want to display it (target)
the javascript
function showImage(src,target) {
var fr=new FileReader();
// when image is loaded, set the src of the image where you want to display it
fr.onload = function(e) { target.src = this.result; };
src.addEventListener("change",function() {
// fill fr with image data
fr.readAsDataURL(src.files[0]);
});
}
var src = document.getElementById("src");
var target = document.getElementById("target");
showImage(src,target);