Javascript file upload

Question

In most browsers, an input type="file" has the following files property:

document.getElementById("my-input").files

This can be used to detect a file is uploaded, and get the file. However, it looks like the files attribute doesn't exist in IE9.

Added:

In jQuery, you can do...

$("#my-input").val() to read the file name. What about getting the files contents?

Answer 1

Use jQuery and this plugin.