Hi,

I am having a HTMLInputFile in my form. Actually it is the form to edit the details from the database. When I am assigning the value retrieved from the database (filename) to the file control it is not assigning the value to it.

If anybody knows how to assign the value to the file control plz help me.

Whiterainbow

SK

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Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Senthil Kumar M.

How do you assign the value?? can you send the code?? do you want to assign from the code behind??

Regards
Ganesh

No. I am not using Code Behind but I am using VBScript.Net. When the page is loaded, I tried to assign the value to the control by using the property value [filebox.value=Rdr.Item("filenm")] and even I tried this using

<input type="file" value="<%=filen%>"....., where the filen is the public variable that gets the filename at the time of page load.

But both are not working.

SK

You should give runat="server" for the HTML Input control to access it in the code. Only then it is accessible from the VB.Net code.

Regards
Ganesh

I know the silly point and it's already assigned to that control and the control is now running from the server

<input id="filenm" style="BORDER-RIGHT: 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px solid" type="file" name="Jobspec" runat="server"/>

now tell me how you will assign the value to this control.



SK

I know the silly point and it's already assigned to that control and the control is now running from the server

<input id="filenm" style="BORDER-RIGHT: 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px solid" type="file" name="filenm" runat="server"/>

now tell me how you will assign the value to this control.



SK

what do you mean by assigning the value?? You can read the "PostedFile" property to get the file which the user has selected or the "Value" property to get its path.

Regards
Ganesh

Now I explain in detail to you in elaborat manner:

I am retrieving the data from database (access). In my database I am having a field to store the filename which i am uploading to the server and it is posted to the server. Now I want to edit the datas in my database and retrieved all the data to the DataReader and displayed the values in the concerned boxes.

In this scenario, I am having a file upload box (it is a HTMLInputFile with syntax <input type="file" runat="server" id="" ...blablabla>.

Now I want to display the name of the file in the box because when I am retrieving the data in that box. I am asking how it can be done?

SK

Normally we do not show the saved file name in the FileInput box. It just has the details of the file uploaded from the client. You can show the name of the already uploaded file sepeartely with an option to view the contents. You may use an anchor or a Hyperlink for this purpose. Alternatevely to upload another file, you can keep another file control which inturn replaces the original one.

The HTMLInputFile Stores not only just the file name but also many other things related to this file. It is not just a textbox and a button. Using this you can access the properties of the client side file which is being uploaded.

Regards
Ganesh