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Can I specify the file type to be uploaded and to be preselected in the file select dialog?

Mar 8th, 2000 00:14
Martin Honnen,

NN2/3/4 and IE4/5 don't allow that currently.

The HTML 4 specs provide for an ACCEPT attribute to list the mime types 
the server is going to process correctly and to allow the user 
agent/browser to offer those mime types for selection
  <INPUT TYPE="file"
         ACCEPT="content-type-list"
  >
thus
  <INPUT TYPE="file"
         ACCEPT="text/html, image/gif"
  >
would specify html and gif files.
It seems however that current browsers don't support the ACCEPT 
attribute.