'Accept' attribute of input element is not working

html cross-browser html-input
subash picture subash · Mar 24, 2010 · Viewed 22.9k times · Source

I came across a browse file dialog-control tag in html and the tag was 

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

but the 'accept' attribute doesn't seems to have any effect. I am using Internet Explorer 8.

Answer

ghermeto picture ghermeto · Mar 25, 2010

according to the w3schools (http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/att_input_accept.asp), the 'accept' attribute is not properly supported by any of the major browsers. The filter inside the file browser dialog will not work.

You could use a javascript validation on the form onsubmit event to verify if the file type is correct, returning false otherwise.

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