[raghuprasad]

I need an way to upload a file by clicking a link instead of button(<input type="file" name="somename"/>). This feature has been newly added to GMail, to attached a file we need to click a link.

Any ideas or code of how this can be done are needed.

Thanks

[gdboling]

When you click the link in gmail, all it does is reveal a fileupload form that gets submitted when the form's 'Send' button is clicked. Are you wanting to do the same thing or are you really wanting to submit a form with a link?

[raghuprasad]

Originally Posted by gdboling

When you click the link in gmail, all it does is reveal a fileupload form that gets submitted when the form's 'Send' button is clicked. Are you wanting to do the same thing or are you really wanting to submit a form with a link?

hi gdboling,

I need the same functionality as gmail, i.e fileupload form that gets submitted when the form's send button is clicked.

thanks.

[gdboling]

What have you tried? If I were doing it I'd do one of a few things..

1. Have a hidden div with a fileupoad element and when you click a link to add a file, show the div

2. Have some JavaScript generate your fileupload element on the fly. That way you can dynamically add more than 1 file to be uploaded (this is more like gmail)

3. Make an AJAX request to the server for the HTML bits to show a fileupload element. This also allows for more than 1 file to be uploaded per form.