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Can I filter the file type in a file upload element?

Aug 21st, 2000 09:04
Martin Honnen, lakshmi lakshmi,

HTML 4 provides the ACCEPT attribute for that, i.e.
  <INPUT TYPE="file" ACCEPT="list of mime types">
should let the browser only offer files of the specified mime types for 
selection e.g.
  <INPUT TYPE="file" ACCEPT="text/html">
should only allow selection of .htm/.html files.
It seems however that no current browser (NN4, NN6, IE4/5) supports 
that.