Re: INPUT tag with default value

It is possible to utilize a VALUE attribute with a FILE type input field. Even the specs at Blooberry list "value" as an attribute of the input type=file field. I double-checked at w3c.org to make sure, though, and found the information repeated there. I even checked my O'Reilly book on XHTML. :) O'Reilly suggests, though, that because of the vagaries of individual file systems on individual computers, the VALUE attribute just isn't recommended. I suggested the use of the htmlspecialchars() function to strip possible quotes from the value of $photo in the original author's example, as in: <input type="file" value="<? echo htmlspecialchars($photo); ?>"> I struggled with exactly this problem a couple of weeks ago. In the end I decided that using the VALUE attribute was just a bad idea, since one could never know how the user had set up their own file system. At 09:47 AM 10/23/2001, Philip Olson wrote:

This is not possible. Default values cannot be set with type=file as if it

were it would be quite a security risk.    A little more information on

the capability of this html form element: http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/i/inputfile.htm And a related RFC : http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1867.html regards, Philip Ollson

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