Ive been thinking about this for days... seems simple but I can't wrap my head around it!
We want to make a simple booking form, where people chose a day and then see two columns of available time slots. I already generate a lost of these.
Now I need to display this in buttons, so they can be pressed and only 1 is selected. So if they choose 2pm Wednesday, and then another, the first goes back to the standard color...
This value needs to be loaded in a hidden field to pass on to the next page.
Having searched it seems like the colors are best done in jquery and the hidden field can be populated easily with vanilla js, that part I have working... Help, how add the color change?
ps this is on a bootstrap 3.4 template, not that that should matter but maybe
<input type="button" id = "booktime" onclick="change(this)" class="btn btn-default" value=" & thishour & ">
function change(bookingtime) {
document.getElementById("myInput").value= bookingtime.value;
}
var links = $('#booktime');
links.click(function() {
links.css('background-color', 'white');
$(this).css('background-color', 'purple');
});
Consider the following HTML and jQuery example.
$(function() {
$(".booking label").click(function() {
var $self = $(this).parent();
$("input", $self).trigger("click");
$(".checked").removeClass("checked");
$self.addClass("checked");
});
$("form").submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var formData = new FormData(this);
for (var pair of formData.entries()) {
console.log(pair[0] + ', ' + pair[1]);
}
});
});
.booking ul {
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
width: 100px;
}
.booking li {
border: 1px outset rgb(224, 224, 224);
border-radius: 6px;
background: #eee;
padding: 7px;
text-align: center;
margin-bottom: 3px;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
}
.booking li.checked {
background: #aaf;
}
.booking li:hover {
background: #ccc;
}
.booking li input {
display: none;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form>
<div class="booking">
<ul>
<li>
<input type="radio" id="time-0000" name="time" value="12:00">
<label for="time-0000">12:00 AM</label>
</li>
<li>
<input type="radio" id="time-0100" name="time" value="01:00">
<label for="time-0100">1:00 AM</label>
</li>
<li>
<input type="radio" id="time-0200" name="time" value="02:00">
<label for="time-0200">2:00 AM</label>
</li>
<li>
<input type="radio" id="time-0300" name="time" value="03:00">
<label for="time-0300">3:00 AM</label>
</li>
<li>
<input type="radio" id="time-0400" name="time" value="04:00">
<label for="time-0400">4:00 AM</label>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<button type="submit">Save</button>
</form>
Most of the User Interface is all CSS. You can make it a bit mo9re custom and include a better look and feel with additional JavaScript. The default function of the Radio Button will help.
Radio buttons are normally presented in radio groups (a collection of radio buttons describing a set of related options). Only one radio button in a group can be selected at the same time.
This will help each button retain a State, either Checked or Unchecked. only one can be checked at a time, so we can simple clear the Styling from any other and apply it to the one clicked upon.
Please look here too see what I am looking at
The TD element I am trying to align with
If you look at the pictures above you will see the pop up box that appears if someone incorrectly types an email in the 'assistant email:' field.
I want to align that div (with the error text) with that assistant email input field so that the left side of the div aligns with the left side of the input field. But can't seem to figure out how to do that. I am working within an environment that creates these fields for me and places them inside a table like format. Each label and field is in its own td and each row is inside a tr.
In this case I am using javascript like this:
$("#" + emailToValidate).parents('tr').after('<div id="a_email" class="email"></div>');
$("#a_email").css({
"position":"relative",
"padding":"13px",
"margin":"15px 0 0.5em",
"width":"300px",
"color":"#D35400",
"background":"#D35400",
"-webkit-border-radius":"0px",
"-moz-border-radius":"0px",
"border-radius":"0px",
"vertical-align": "top"
});
Here is the HTML of that section:
<tr>
<td valign="top" id="last_name_label" width="12.5%" scope="col">
Last Name:
<span class="required">*</span>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="37.5%">
<input type="text" name="last_name" id="last_name" size="30" maxlength="100" value="Test" title="">
</td><td valign="top" id="assistant_email_c_label" width="12.5%" scope="col">
Assistant Email:
</td>
<td valign="top" width="37.5%">
<input type="text" name="assistant_email_c" id="assistant_email_c" size="30" maxlength="255" value="" title="">
</td></tr>
The the div element which is not inside a table-row itself is immediately after the code right above this text.
<div id="a_email" class="email" style="position: relative; padding: 13px; margin: 15px 0px 0.5em; width: 300px; color: rgb(211, 84, 0); border-radius: 0px; vertical-align: top; background: rgb(211, 84, 0);">
<h4 align="left">
<font color="white">Please format the email as such: <b>'youremail#emailprovider.com'</b>.<br>The save button will remain disabled <br>until corrections are made.
</font>
</h4>
</div>
I need to align this div WITHOUT changing other elements on the page. I am simply needing to add something to that css in the javascript that would align it.
Here's a working fiddle with the contraint to not touch the HTML structure and do it with CSS and JS :
See this working fiddle
CSS
#a_email {
display: none;
position :absolute !important;
left: 0;
top: 20px;
padding:13px;
margin:15px 0 0.5em;
width:300px;
color:#D35400;
background:#D35400;
-webkit-border-radius:0px;
-moz-border-radius:0px;
border-radius:0px;
vertical-align: top;
}
.wrap { position: relative; display: inline-block; }
**JS **
$(function(){
$('#assistant_email_c').blur(function(){
if(validateEmail($(this).val()) == false ){
$("#a_email").insertAfter($(this)).addClass('toWrap');
$(this).addClass('toWrap');
if($('.wrap').length == 0){
$('.toWrap').wrapAll( "<div class='wrap' />" );
}
$("#a_email").css('display','inline-block').fadeIn(300);
}else{
$("#a_email").fadeOut(300);
}
});
});
function validateEmail(email) {
var re = /^(([^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s#"]+(\.[^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s#"]+)*)|(".+"))#((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/;
return re.test(email);
}
Is there a way to style (or script) <input type=file /> element to have visible only "Browse" button without text field?
Thanks
Edit:
Just to clarify why to I need this. I'm using multi file upload code from http://www.morningz.com/?p=5 and it doesn't need input text field because it never has value. Script just adds newly selected file to collection on page. It would look much better without text field, if it's possible.
<input type="file" id="selectedFile" style="display: none;" />
<input type="button" value="Browse..." onclick="document.getElementById('selectedFile').click();" />
This will surely work as I have used it in my projects.
I was having a heck of a time trying to accomplish this. I didn't want to use a Flash solution, and none of the jQuery libraries I looked at were reliable across all browsers.
I came up with my own solution, which is implemented completely in CSS (except for the onclick style change to make the button appear 'clicked').
You can try a working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/VQJ9V/307/ (Tested in FF 7, IE 9, Safari 5, Opera 11 and Chrome 14)
It works by creating a big file input (with font-size:50px), then wrapping it in a div that has a fixed size and overflow:hidden. The input is then only visible through this "window" div. The div can be given a background image or color, text can be added, and the input can be made transparent to reveal the div background:
HTML:
<div class="inputWrapper">
<input class="fileInput" type="file" name="file1"/>
</div>
CSS:
.inputWrapper {
height: 32px;
width: 64px;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
cursor: pointer;
/*Using a background color, but you can use a background image to represent a button*/
background-color: #DDF;
}
.fileInput {
cursor: pointer;
height: 100%;
position:absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
z-index: 99;
/*This makes the button huge. If you want a bigger button, increase the font size*/
font-size:50px;
/*Opacity settings for all browsers*/
opacity: 0;
-moz-opacity: 0;
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=0)
}
Let me know if there are any problems with it and I'll try to fix them.
I wasted my day today getting this to work. I found none of the solutions here working each of my scenarios.
Then I remembered I saw an example for the JQuery File Upload without text box. So what I did is that I took their example and stripped it down to the relevant part.
This solution at least works for IE and FF and can be fully styled. In the below example the file input is hidden under the fancy "Add Files" button.
<html>
<head>
<title>jQuery File Upload Example</title>
<style type="text/css">
.myfileupload-buttonbar input
{
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
margin: 0;
border: solid transparent;
border-width: 0 0 100px 200px;
opacity: 0.0;
filter: alpha(opacity=0);
-o-transform: translate(250px, -50px) scale(1);
-moz-transform: translate(-300px, 0) scale(4);
direction: ltr;
cursor: pointer;
}
.myui-button
{
position: relative;
cursor: pointer;
text-align: center;
overflow: visible;
background-color: red;
overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="fileupload" >
<div class="myfileupload-buttonbar ">
<label class="myui-button">
<span >Add Files</span>
<input id="file" type="file" name="files[]" />
</label>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Add a label tag with for attribute assign the for attribute value to the file input button.
Now when you click the label, the browser will open up the file browse dialogue popup automatically.
Note: Hide the file input button using CSS.
Check the live demo below.
$('#imageUpload').change(function() {
readImgUrlAndPreview(this);
function readImgUrlAndPreview(input) {
if (input.files && input.files[0]) {
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(e) {
$('#imagePreview').removeClass('hide').attr('src', e.target.result);
}
};
reader.readAsDataURL(input.files[0]);
}
});
.hide {
display: none;
}
.btn {
display: inline-block;
padding: 4px 12px;
margin-bottom: 0;
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 20px;
color: #333333;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
cursor: pointer;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px #eee;
border-radius: 4px;
}
.btn-large {
padding: 11px 19px;
font-size: 17.5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 4px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
border-radius: 4px;
}
#imagePreview {
margin: 15px 0 0 0;
border: 2px solid #ddd;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div clas="file_input_wrap">
<input type="file" name="imageUpload" id="imageUpload" class="hide" />
<label for="imageUpload" class="btn btn-large">Select file</label>
</div>
<div class="img_preview_wrap">
<img src="" id="imagePreview" alt="Preview Image" width="200px" class="hide" />
</div>
Hide the input-file element and create a visible button that will trigger the click event of that input-file.
Try this:
CSS
#file { width:0; height:0; }
HTML:
<input type='file' id='file' name='file' />
<button id='btn-upload'>Upload</button>
JAVASCRIPT(jQuery):
$(function(){
$('#btn-upload').click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$('#file').click();}
);
});
I tried to implement the top two solutions, and it ended up being a HUGE waste of time for me. In the end, applying this .css class solved the problem...
input[type='file'] {
color: transparent;
}
Done! super clean and super simple...
That's going to be very hard. The problem with the file input type is that it usually consists of two visual elements, while being treated as a single DOM-element. Add to that that several browsers have their own distinct look and feel for the file input, and you're set for nightmare. See this article on quirksmode.org about the quirks the file input has. I guarantee you it won't make you happy (I speak from experience).
[EDIT]
Actually, I think you might get away with putting your input in a container element (like a div), and adding a negative margin to the element. Effectively hiding the textbox part off screen.
Another option would be to use the technique in the article I linked, to try to style it like a button.
Fix to work in all browsers
RESOLVED:
<input type = "button" value = "Choose image"
onclick ="javascript:document.getElementById('imagefile').click();">
<input id = "imagefile" type="file" style='visibility: hidden;' name="img"/>
I have tested in FF, Chrome & IE - working fine, applied styles too :D
Here is my good ol' remedy:
<input type="file" id="myFile" style="display:none;" />
<button type="button" onclick="document.getElementById('myFile').click();">Browse</button>
At least it worked in Safari.
Plain and simple.
Another easy way of doing this. Make a "input type file" tag in html and hide it. Then click a button and format it according to need. After this use javascript/jquery to programmatically click the input tag when the button is clicked.
HTML :-
<input id="file" type="file" style="display: none;">
<button id="button">Add file</button>
JavaScript :-
document.getElementById('button').addEventListener("click", function() {
document.getElementById('file').click();
});
jQuery :-
$('#button').click(function(){
$('#file').click();
});
CSS :-
#button
{
background-color: blue;
color: white;
}
Here is a working JS fiddle for the same :- http://jsfiddle.net/32na3/
I used some of the code recommended above and after many hours of waisting my time, I eventually came to a css bag free solution.
You can run it over here - http://jsfiddle.net/WqGph/
but then found a better solution - http://jsfiddle.net/XMMc4/5/
<input type = "button" value = "Choose image #2"
onclick ="javascript:document.getElementById('imagefile').click();">
<input id = "imagefile" type="file" style='display:none;' name="img" value="none"/>see jsfiddle code for examples<br/>
You could label an image so when you click on it the click event of the button will be triggered. You can simply make the normal button invisible:
<form>
<label for="fileButton"><img src="YourSource"></label> <!--You don't have to put an image here, it can be anything you like-->
<input type="file" id="fileButton" style="display:none;"/>
</form>
It worked for me on all browsers, and is very easy to use.
You can dispatch the click event on a hidden file input like this:
<form action="#type your action here" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<div id="yourBtn" style="height: 50px; width: 100px;border: 1px dashed #BBB; cursor:pointer;" >Click to upload!</div>
<!-- hide input[type=file]!-->
<div style='height: 0px;width:0px; overflow:hidden;'><input id="upfile" type="file" value="upload"/></div>
<input type="submit" value='submit' >
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
var btn = document.getElementById("yourBtn");
var upfile = document.getElementById("upfile");
btn.addEventListener('click',function(){
if(document.createEvent){
var ev = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
ev.initEvent('click',true,false);
upfile.dispatchEvent(ev);
}else{
upfile.click();
}
});
</script>
HTML:
<input type="file" name="upload" id="upload" style="display:none"></input>
<button id="browse">Upload</button>
JQUERY
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#browse").click(function(){
$("#upload").click();
});
});
Hope this works :)
This HTML code show up only Upload File button
<form action="/action_page.php">
<input type="button" id="id" value="Upload File" onclick="document.getElementById('file').click();" />
<input type="file" style="display:none;" id="file" name="file" onchange="this.form.submit()"/>
</form>
You can give the input element a font opacity of 0. This will hide the text field without hiding the 'Choose Files' button.
No javascript required, clear cross browser as far back as IE 9
E.g.,
input {color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);}
Ive a really hacky solution with this...
<style type="text/css">
input[type="file"]
{
width: 80px;
}
</style>
<input id="File1" type="file" />
The problem is the width attribute that is hiding the text field will obvously vary between browsers, vary between Windows XP themes and so on. Maybe its something you can work with though?...
I know this is an old post but a simple way to make the text dissapear is just to set text color to that of your background.
eg if your text input background is white then:
input[type="file"]{
color:#fff;
}
This will not effect the Choose File text which will still be black due to the browser.
There is a simple and hacky way to show only the file input button while keeping the render and translations of this file input button :
Make the text that is displayed after a file input invisible using a the color transparent.
<input type="file" style="color: transparent" />
my solution is just to set it within a div like "druveen" said, however i ad my own button style to the div (make it look like a button with a:hover) and i just set the style "opacity:0;" to the input. Works a charm for me, hope it does the same for you.
This works for me:
input[type="file"] {
color: white!important;
}
I just styled an input file with width: 85px, and the text field disappeared at all
Select Logo <input type="file" id="logo">
$("#logo").css('opacity','0');
$("#select_logo").click(function(){
$().trigger('click');
return false;
});
For me, the simplest way is using a font color like background color. Simple, not elegant, but usefull.
<div style="color:#FFFFFF"> <!-- if background page is white, of course -->
<input class="fileInput" type="file" name="file1"/></div>
So here's the best way to do this FOR ALL BROWSERS:
Forget CSS!
<p>Append Image:</p>
<input type="button" id="clickImage" value="Add Image" />
<input type="file" name="images[]" id="images" multiple />
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script>
$('#images').hide();
$('#clickImage').click( function() {
$('#images').trigger('click');
});
</script>
All these answers are cute, but CSS won't work since it isn't the same across all browsers and devices, the first answer I wrote will work in everything but Safari. To get it to work accross all browsers all the time it must be created dynamically and recreated every time you want to clear the input text:
var imageDiv = document.createElement("div");
imageDiv.setAttribute("id", "imagediv");
imageDiv.style.cssText = 'position:relative; vertical-align: bottom;';
var imageText = document.createTextNode("Append Image:");
var newLine = document.createElement("br");
var image = document.createElement("input");
image.setAttribute("type", "file");
image.setAttribute("id", "images");
image.setAttribute("name", "images[]");
image.setAttribute("multiple", "multiple");
imageDiv.appendChild(imageText);
imageDiv.appendChild(newLine);
imageDiv.appendChild(image);
questionParagraph.appendChild(imageDiv);
The answer of tmanthey is quite good, except that you can't play with border-width in Firefox v20. If you see the link (demo, can't really show here) they solved the problem using font-size=23px, transform:translate(-300px, 0px) scale(4) for Firefox to get the button bigger.
Other solutions using .click() on a different div is useless if you want to make it a drag'n'drop input box.
There are several valid options here but thought I would give what I have come up with while trying to fix a similar issue. http://jsfiddle.net/5RyrG/1/
<span class="btn fileinput-button">
<span>Import Field(s)</span>
<input id="fileupload" type="file" name="files[]" onchange="handleFiles(this.files)" multiple>
</span>
<div id="txt"></div>
function handleFiles(files){
$('#txt').text(files[0].name);
}
I wrote this:
<form action='' method='POST' name='form-upload-image' id='form-upload-image' enctype='multipart/form-data'>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; overflow: hidden;">
<input type="file" name="input-file" id="input-file" onchange="this.files.length > 0 ? document.getElementById('form-upload-image').submit():null;" />
</div>
</form>
<img src="image.jpg" style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="document.getElementById('input-file').click();" />
Work fine in all browsers, no jQuery, no CSS.
Here is a simplified version of #ampersandre's popular solution that works in all major browsers.
Asp.NET markup
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="FilePath" CssClass="form-control"
style="float:left; display:inline; margin-right:5px; width:300px"
ReadOnly="True" ClientIDMode="Static" />
<div class="inputWrapper">
<div id="UploadFile" style="height:38px; font-size:16px;
text-align:center">Upload File</div>
<div>
<input name="FileUpload" id="FileInput" runat="server"
type="File" />
</div>
</div>
<asp:Button ID="UploadButton" runat="server"
style="display:none" OnClick="UploadButton_Click" />
</div>
<asp:HiddenField ID="hdnFileName" runat="server" ClientIDMode="Static" />
JQuery Code
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#UploadFile').click(function () {
alert('UploadFile clicked');
$('[id$="FileInput"]').trigger('click');
});
$('[id$="FileInput"]').change(function (event) {
var target = event.target;
var tmpFile = target.files[0].name;
alert('FileInput changed:' + tmpFile);
if (tmpFile.length > 0) {
$('#hdnFileName').val(tmpFile);
}
$('[id$="UploadButton"]').trigger('click');
});
});
css code
.inputWrapper {
height: 38px;
width: 102px;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
padding: 6px 6px;
cursor: pointer;
white-space:nowrap;
/*Using a background color, but you can use a background image to represent
a button*/
background-color: #DEDEDE;
border: 1px solid gray;
border-radius: 4px;
-moz-user-select: none;
-ms-user-select: none;
-webkit-user-select: none;
user-select: none;
}
Uses a hidden "UploadButton" click trigger for server postback with standard . The with "Upload File" text pushes the input control out of view in the wrapper div when it overflows so there is no need to apply any styles for the "file input" control div. The $([id$="FileInput"]) selector allows section of ids with standard ASP.NET prefixes applied. The FilePath textbox value in set from server code behind from hdnFileName.Value once file is uploaded.