How about:

<input type="file" accept="application/pdf" name="whatever" />

A good first step, this should get most browsers limiting what you can 
select in the popup choose file dialog,

Hope this helps,

Kelvin :)

Raffael Luthiger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to create a simple file upload form. The whole thing should 
> be something like described here: http://ch2.php.net/features.file-upload
> 
> But I would like to restrict the upload to PDF files. Since I already 
> have jQuery running for other purposes I was thinking about using it for 
> this as well. (At least for the first stage to check the last three 
> letters of the filename. If I am right it is not possible to check the 
> MIME type before sending)
> 
> My idea is to check the file-input field as soon as the name of the file 
> is in there. I am not sure now if I can treat this file-input field like 
> a text-input field or if I have to look for something special. If I have 
> to treat is special can someone give me more information on how to do it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Raffael

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