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Use jQuery to get the file input's selected filename without the path

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How check file is selected or not in jQuery?

length property in jQuery to check the file is selected or not. If element. files. length property returns 0 then the file is not selected otherwise file is selected.


var filename = $('input[type=file]').val().split('\\').pop();

or you could just do (because it's always C:\fakepath that is added for security reasons):

var filename = $('input[type=file]').val().replace(/C:\\fakepath\\/i, '')

You just need to do the code below. The first [0] is to access the HTML element and second [0] is to access the first file of the file upload (I included a validation in case that there is no file):

    var filename = $('input[type=file]')[0].files.length ? ('input[type=file]')[0].files[0].name : "";

Chrome returns C:\fakepath\... for security reasons - a website should not be able to obtain information about your computer such as the path to a file on your computer.

To get just the filename portion of a string, you can use split()...

var file = path.split('\\').pop();

jsFiddle.

...or a regular expression...

var file = path.match(/\\([^\\]+)$/)[1];

jsFiddle.

...or lastIndexOf()...

var file = path.substr(path.lastIndexOf('\\') + 1);

jsFiddle.


Get path work with all OS

var filename = $('input[type=file]').val().replace(/.*(\/|\\)/, '');

Example

C:\fakepath\filename.doc 
/var/fakepath/filename.doc

Both return

filename.doc
filename.doc

Here is how I do it, it works pretty well.

In your HTML do:

<input type="file" name="Att_AttributeID" onchange="fileSelect(event)" class="inputField" />

Then in your js file create a simple function:

function fileSelect(id, e){
    console.log(e.target.files[0].name);
}

If you're doing multiple files, you should also be able to get the list by looping over this:

e.target.files[0].name