Styling an input type=“file” button

Question

How to style the input type="file" button.

Answer 1

Here we use a span to trigger input of type file and we simply customized that span, so we can add any styling using this way.

Note that we use input tag with visibility:hidden option and trigger it in the span.

.attachFileSpan{
color:#2b6dad;
cursor:pointer;
}
.attachFileSpan:hover{
text-decoration: underline;
}

<h3> Customized input of type file </h3>
<input id="myInput" type="file" style="visibility:hidden"/>

        <span title="attach file" class="attachFileSpan" onclick="document.getElementById('myInput').click()">
        Attach file
        </span>

Reference

Answer 2

HTML

<div class="new_Btn">SelectPicture</div><br>
<input id="html_btn" type='file'" /><br>

CSS

.new_Btn {
// your css propterties
}

#html_btn {
 display:none;
}

jQuery

$('.new_Btn').bind("click" , function () {
        $('#html_btn').click();
    });
//edit: 6/20/2014: Be sure to use ".on" not ".bind" for newer versions of jQuery

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/M7BXC/

You can reach your goals too without jQuery with normal JavaScript.

Now the newBtn is linkes with the html_btn and you can style your new btn like you want :D

Answer 3

In case you're looking for a javascript library - out of the box solution, jquery-fileinput works fine.

Answer 4

ONLY CSS

Use this very simple and EASY

Html:

<label>Attach your screenshort</label>
                <input type="file" multiple class="choose">

Css:

.choose::-webkit-file-upload-button {
    color: white;
    display: inline-block;
    background: #1CB6E0;
    border: none;
    padding: 7px 15px;
    font-weight: 700;
    border-radius: 3px;
    white-space: nowrap;
    cursor: pointer;
    font-size: 10pt;
}

Answer 5

 <label>
    <input type="file" />
 </label>

You can wrap your input type="file" inside of a label for the input. Style the label however you'd like and hide the input with display: none;

Answer 6

Working example here with native Drag and drop support : https://jsfiddle.net/ms3bbazv/4/

When styling a file input, you shouldn't break any of native interaction the input provides.

The display: none approach breaks the native drag and drop support.

To not break anything, you should use the opacity: 0 approach for the input, and position it using relative / absolute pattern in a wrapper.

Using this technique, you can easily style a click / drop zone for the user, and add custom class in javascript on dragenter event to update styles and give user a feedback to let him see that he can drop a file.

HTML :

<label for="test">
  <div>Click or drop something here</div>
  <input type="file" id="test">
</label>

CSS :

input[type="file"] {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  opacity: 0;
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  width: 100%;
}

div {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  width: 100%;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  background: #ccc;
  border: 3px dotted #bebebe;
  border-radius: 10px;
}

label {
  display: inline-block;
  position: relative;
  height: 100px;
  width: 400px;
}

Here is a working example (with additional JS to handle dragover event and dropped files).

https://jsfiddle.net/ms3bbazv/4/

Hope this helped !