jQuery: get the file name selected from <input type="file" />

Question

It is just such simple as writing:

$('input[type=file]').val()

Anyway, I suggest using name or ID attribute to select your input. And with event, it should look like this:

$('input[type=file]').change(function(e){
  $in=$(this);
  $in.next().html($in.val());
});

The simplest way is to simply use the following line of jquery, using this you don't get the /fakepath nonsense, you straight up get the file that was uploaded:

$('input[type=file]')[0].files[0]; // This gets the file
$('#idOfFileUpload')[0].files[0]; // This gets the file with the specified id

Some other useful commands are:

To get the name of the file:

$('input[type=file]')[0].files[0].name; // This gets the file name

To get the type of the file:

If I were to upload a PNG, it would return image/png

$("#imgUpload")[0].files[0].type

To get the size (in bytes) of the file:

$("#imgUpload")[0].files[0].size

Also you don't have to use these commands on('change', you can get the values at any time, for instance you may have a file upload and when the user clicks upload, you simply use the commands I listed.

$('input[type=file]').change(function(e){
    $(this).parents('.parent-selector').find('.element-to-paste-filename').text(e.target.files[0].name);
});

This code will not show C:\fakepath\ before file name in Google Chrome in case of using .val().

<input onchange="readURL(this);"  type="file" name="userfile" />
<img src="" id="blah"/>
<script>
 function readURL(input) {
    if (input.files && input.files[0]) {
        var reader = new FileReader();

        reader.onload = function (e) {
            $('#blah')
                    .attr('src', e.target.result)
                    .width(150).height(200);
        };

        reader.readAsDataURL(input.files[0]);
        //console.log(reader);
        //alert(reader.readAsDataURL(input.files[0]));
    }
}
</script>

I had used following which worked correctly.

$('#fileAttached').attr('value', $('#attachment').val())