HTML: How to limit file upload to be only images?

Question

With HTML, how do I limit what kind of filetypes can be uploaded?

To easy the user experience, I want to limit file uploads to be only images (jpeg, gif, png).

<form method="post" action="..." enctype="multipart/form-data">
<label for="image">Photo</label>
<input name="image" type="file" />
</form>

Answer 1

<script>

    function chng()
    {
        var typ=document.getElementById("fiile").value;
        var res = typ.match(".jp");

        if(res)
        {
            alert("sucess");
        }
        else
        {
            alert("Sorry only jpeg images are accepted");
            document.getElementById("fiile").value="; //clear the uploaded file
        }
    }

</script>

Now in the html part

<input type="file" onchange="chng()">

this code will check if the uploaded file is a jpg file or not and restricts the upload of other types

Answer 2

Here is the HTML for image upload. By default it will show image files only in the browsing window because we have put accept="image/*". But we can still change it from the dropdown and it will show all files. So the Javascript part validates whether or not the selected file is an actual image.

 <div class="col-sm-8 img-upload-section">
     <input name="image3" type="file" accept="image/*" id="menu_images"/>
     <img id="menu_image" class="preview_img" />
     <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
 </div> 

Here on the change event we first check the size of the image. And in the second if condition we check whether or not it is an image file.

this.files[0].type.indexOf("image") will be -1 if it is not an image file.

document.getElementById("menu_images").onchange = function () {
    var reader = new FileReader();
    if(this.files[0].size>528385){
        alert("Image Size should not be greater than 500Kb");
        $("#menu_image").attr("src","blank");
        $("#menu_image").hide();  
        $('#menu_images').wrap('<form>').closest('form').get(0).reset();
        $('#menu_images').unwrap();     
        return false;
    }
    if(this.files[0].type.indexOf("image")==-1){
        alert("Invalid Type");
        $("#menu_image").attr("src","blank");
        $("#menu_image").hide();  
        $('#menu_images').wrap('<form>').closest('form').get(0).reset();
        $('#menu_images').unwrap();         
        return false;
    }   
    reader.onload = function (e) {
        // get loaded data and render thumbnail.
        document.getElementById("menu_image").src = e.target.result;
        $("#menu_image").show(); 
    };

    // read the image file as a data URL.
    reader.readAsDataURL(this.files[0]);
};