Category Archives: HTML

Customizing HTML file input style

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Robert Piasecki

Styling an HTML file input control is very cumbersome and the number of available options is quite limited. Moreover, each web browser renders this control differently which makes it difficult to have consistent view of the application between browsers. Here … Continue reading →

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Accessing local files from a web browser using HTML5 File API

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Robert Piasecki

HTML5 introduced a standard interface called File API which lets programmers access meta-data and read contents of local files selected by a user. The selection is typically done using input element but the recent browsers also allow using drag and … Continue reading →

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