Re: Detect file size BEFORE upload it

Yeah, you're right. I didn't test that before I posted it. Looks like you can do it as long as your clients are running Windows and you can use Active X or another Windows trick using something like JScript, but with pure Javascript it looks bleak. I tried to use something like this: img = New Image(); img.src = "somefile.ext"; // NOT an image file alert(img.fileSize); But found out that this is an IE-only trick as well. Nobody else seems to support the filesize property on image objects. Funny thing is, even in IE it didn't work. Even when I actually used an image for the file name. Oh well.. guess that Java applet might be the best way then, to keep it cross platform and all that. -Tg = = = Original message = = = tg-php@gryffyndevelopment.com wrote: > var myFile = new File("c:\temp\myfile.txt"); > myFile.open("r"); > alert('myFile length: ' + myFile.getLength()); Somehow I don't think any browser is going to give JS access to arbitrary files on the user's system like that. -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/ ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com.