jQuery Fileinput Plugin

Normally, you can't use CSS to style HTML file inputs. They'll always look fugly. With jQuery Fileinput you can!

By wrapping the file input on a div, adding a replacement element to provide the visuals and then making the original input invisible. Clicks to the replacement element are propagated to the original input on the browsers that support it, otherwise a transparent file input is placed on top of the replacement.

Downloads

• Minified
• Full version

Examples

Trivial

...
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://raw.github.com/javanto/jquery-fileinput/3.1.0/dist/jquery.fileinput.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
$().ready(function() {
  $("input[type=file]").fileinput();
});
//]]>
</script>
...
<input type="file" name="foo" />

With replacement HTML

...
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://raw.github.com/javanto/jquery-fileinput/3.1.0/dist/jquery.fileinput.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
$().ready(function() {
  $("input[type=file]").fileinput("<button>Browse...</button>");
});
//]]>
</script>
...
<input type="file" name="foo" />

With replacement jQuery selector

...
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://raw.github.com/javanto/jquery-fileinput/3.1.0/dist/jquery.fileinput.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
$().ready(function() {
  $("input[type=file]").fileinput($("button").remove());
});
//]]>
</script>
...
<input type="file" name="foo" />
<button>Browse...</button>

API

.fileinput([replacement])

• replacement Plain HTML, or a jQuery selector for the element intended to replace the file input.

Notes

With Opera (and Firefox versions before 4) we can't support the native CSS pseudo classes. Instead we'll provide them equivalent "pseudo pseudo classes" which are actually just normal CSS classes.

• .hover for :hover
• .focus for :focus
• .active for :active

Demo

At jsFiddle.

Requirements

• jQuery
• 1.4+

Brower support

Tested on

• Chrome
• 24.0.1312.57 m
• Chromium
• 24.0.1312.56
• Firefox
• 18.0.2
• Internet Explorer
• 10.0.9200.16466
• Opera
• 12.14
• Safari
• 5.1.7 (7534.57.2)

Developing

1. Fork
2. Make your modifications
3. Make sure you have node and npm installed
4. Install the dependencies required for the build: npm install node-fs dot uglify-js gits
5. Install jake: npm install jake -g
6. Compile and minify: jake
7. Test
8. Commit and create a pull request
9. ???
10. Profit!