Change the “No file chosen”:

Question

I have a button "Choose file" as follows (I am using Jade but it should be the same as Html5):

 input(type='file', name='videoFile')

In the browser this shows a button with a text next to it "No file chosen". I would like to change the "No file chosen" text to something else, like "No video chosen" or "Choose a video please". I followed the first suggestions here:

I don't want to see 'no file chosen' for a file input field

But doing this did not change the text:

 input(type='file', name='videoFile', title = "Choose a video please")

Can anybody help me figure out where the problem is?

Answer 1

Try this its just a trick

<input type="file" name="uploadfile" id="img" style="display:none;"/>
<label for="img">Click me to upload image</label>

How it works

It's very simple. the Label element uses the "for" tag to reference to a form's element by id. In this case, we used "img" as the reference key between them. Once it is done, whenever you click on the label, it automatically trigger the form's element click event which is the file element click event in our case. We then make the file element invisible by using display:none and not visibility:hidden so that it doesn't create empty space.

Enjoy coding

Answer 2

 .vendor_logo_hide{
      display: inline !important;;
      color: transparent;
      width: 99px;
    }
    .vendor_logo{
      display: block !important;
      color: black;
      width: 100%; 
    }

$(document).ready(function() {
  // set text to select company logo 
  $("#Uploadfile").after("<span class='file_placeholder'>Select Company Logo</span>");
  // on change
  $('#Uploadfile').change(function() {
    //  show file name 
    if ($("#Uploadfile").val().length > 0) {
      $(".file_placeholder").empty();
      $('#Uploadfile').removeClass('vendor_logo_hide').addClass('vendor_logo');
      console.log($("#Uploadfile").val());
    } else {
      // show select company logo
      $('#Uploadfile').removeClass('vendor_logo').addClass('vendor_logo_hide');
      $("#Uploadfile").after("<span class='file_placeholder'>Select  Company Logo</span>");
    }

  });

});

.vendor_logo_hide {
  display: inline !important;
  ;
  color: transparent;
  width: 99px;
}

.vendor_logo {
  display: block !important;
  color: black;
  width: 100%;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="file" class="vendor_logo_hide" name="v_logo" id='Uploadfile'>
<span class="fa fa-picture-o form-control-feedback"></span>

<div>
  <p>Here defualt no choose file is set to select company logo. if File is selected then it will displays file name</p>
</div>

Answer 3

But if you try to remove this tooltip

<input type='file' title=""/>

This wont work. Here is my little trick to work this, try title with a space. It will work.:)

<input type='file' title=" "/>

Answer 4

I would use "button" instead of "label", hope this help someone.

This will just display a button, user clicked will popup file chooser, after file chose, automatically upload.

<button onclick='<%= "$(\"#" + FileUpload1.ClientID + "\").click(); return false;" %>'>The Text You Want</button>

<asp:FileUpload onchange="$('#btnUpload').click();" ID="FileUpload1" runat="server" style="display: none;" />

<asp:Button ID="btnUpload" ClientIDMode="Static" runat="server" OnClick="btnUpload_Click" style="display: none;" />

Answer 5

HTML

  <div class="fileUpload btn btn-primary">
    <label class="upload">
      <input name='Image' type="file"/>
    Upload Image
    </label>
  </div>

CSS

input[type="file"]
{
  display: none;
}
.fileUpload input.upload 
{
    display: inline-block;
}

Note: Btn btn-primary is a class of bootstrap button. However the button may look weired in position. Hope you can fix it by inline css.

Answer 6

<div class="field">
    <label class="field-label" for="photo">Your photo</label>
    <input class="field-input" type="file" name="photo"  id="photo" value="photo" />
</div>

and the css

input[type="file"]
{ 
   color: transparent; 
   background-color: #F89406; 
   border: 2px solid #34495e; 
   width: 100%; 
   height: 36px; 
   border-radius: 3px; 
}