How to change “File Upload” dialog's Title in

Question

Is it possible to change the title of "File Upload" dialogs in any common browser such as IE or FireFox?

Answer 1

Checking the documentation pages I cannot find such a thing... I guess this is not possible.

In the Control types from the Forms section we find the input[type='file'] that is described as:

file select

This control type allows the user to select files so that their contents may be submitted with a form. The INPUT element is used to create a file select control.

Then we check the Input elements and we find a list of the elements with different types that uses input:

There is the file type too:

file

Creates a file select control. User agents may use the value of the value attribute as the initial file name.

So, in conclusion this is unfortunately not possible.

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The alternatives you can choose are to use drag and drop on a popup that is opened inside of the HTML:

-------------------------------------- <-- the full page
|                                    |   
|                                    |   
|       |----------------| <------------ The popup
|       | Your title     |           |   
|       |----------------|           |   
|       | Drag files here|           |   
|       |----------------|           |   
|                                    |   
|                                    |   
--------------------------------------