HTML - Display image after selecting filename [duplicate]

Here You Go:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link
      class="jsbin"
      href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css"
      rel="stylesheet"
      type="text/css"
    />
    <script
      class="jsbin"
      src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"
    ></script>
    <script
      class="jsbin"
      src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.0/jquery-ui.min.js"
    ></script>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>JS Bin</title>
    <!--[if IE]>
      <script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
    <![endif]-->
    <style>
      article,
      aside,
      figure,
      footer,
      header,
      hgroup,
      menu,
      nav,
      section {
        display: block;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <input type="file" onchange="readURL(this);" />
    <img id="blah" src="#" alt="your image" />
  </body>
</html>

Script:

function readURL(input) {
  if (input.files && input.files[0]) {
    var reader = new FileReader();

    reader.onload = function (e) {
      $('#blah').attr('src', e.target.result).width(150).height(200);
    };

    reader.readAsDataURL(input.files[0]);
  }
}

Live Demo


You can achieve this with the following code:

$("input").change(function(e) {

    for (var i = 0; i < e.originalEvent.srcElement.files.length; i++) {

        var file = e.originalEvent.srcElement.files[i];

        var img = document.createElement("img");
        var reader = new FileReader();
        reader.onloadend = function() {
             img.src = reader.result;
        }
        reader.readAsDataURL(file);
        $("input").after(img);
    }
});

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ugPDx/


This can be done using HTML5, but will only work in browsers that support it. Here's an example.

Bear in mind you'll need an alternative method for browsers that don't support this. I've had a lot of success with this plugin, which takes a lot of the work out of your hands.