March 9, 2012
Hide the upload submit button if field "file" is empty
Question by Warface
With this simple example
<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
Upload images: <input type="file" name="images[]" multiple="multiple"> <input type="submit" name="submitImgs" value="Upload"/>
</form>
How can I hide the submit button until somthing’s in the file field, I’ve tried to make a php script that look if the $_FILES[‘error’] == 4 or is_file_uploaded, etc and that don’t work. So I want to simply hide the button until something is selected in the file field.
The answer could be in javascript, jQuery… I don’t care 😀
Thanks
Answer by Rob W
The <input type="file"> element has a files property.
Simply check files.length.
jQuery example, which modifies the submit button on the fly:
// Select the <input type="file"> element
$('input[type=file][name="images[]"]').change(function(){
var hasNoFiles = this.files.length == 0;
$(this).closest('form') /* Select the form element */
.find('input[type=submit]') /* Get the submit button */
.prop('disabled', hasNoFiles); /* Disable the button. */
});
Answer by Starx
Use this. Attach the code on the change event of the file field.
$(function() {
$("input:file").change(function() {
var fileName = $(this).val();
if(filename != "") { $("#submitButtonId").show(); } //show the button
});
});
