Thanks to all who responded. As I suspected, the consensis is that it cannot be done for security implementation reasons. It always helps to have some follks back you up <g>.
-Mark -----Original Message----- From: Boardwine, David L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:07 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Pre-populating a "file" form field The problem is the INPUT TYPE="File" has no value attribute. Therefore there is no way to re-populate it. DavidB -----Original Message----- From: Gyrus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:58 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Pre-populating a "file" form field ----- Original Message ----- > One of the fields is a "file" field however. When I try to "pre-populate" > that field with the original user choice, it fails. I'm sure this is > because of the special nature of the file field, and I've told my client > that I do not believe it can be done. Does anyone know of a trick to > re-fill the file field with the users original choice? --------------------------- I've never had a client complain about this, ergo I've never thought about it before ;-) But yeah, I've noticed it in passing, and thinking about it now, the only thing that comes to mind is: - onsubmit, copy the file field's value into a hidden field with JS - Use this hidden field to re-populate the file field Haven't tried it, but can't see why it wouldn't work. Gyrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: http://www.tengai.co.uk play: http://norlonto.net PGP key available ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
