just a quick question,
mission is to get a folder directory name. example: _C:\ThisFolder\myFolder_.
and I've used html input type="file" but I'm only able to get the file name, plus type="file" works like one want to upload something, while I just want to get the folder path of user selection.
<label> Update to : </label>
<input type="file" class="form-control" id="dirpath" name="dirpath" directory />is there any other approach that I could use, please advice, thanks.
Due to security reasons browser does not allow it. Browser has no access to the file system. If you need the file's path for reading a file you can use the FileReader API instead.
Try this code,
$('#dirpath').on('change',function ()
{
var filePath = $(this).val();
console.log(filePath);
});<label> Update to : </label>
<input type="file" class="form-control" id="dirpath" onchange="fileget(event)" name="dirpath" directory />
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js"></script>Maybe you can just use it like this:
<label> Update to : </label>
<input type="file" class="form-control" id="dirpath" name="dirpath" directory onSubmit = getPath()/>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function getPath() {
var inputName = document.getElementById('dirname');
var Path;
Path = inputName.value;
}
</script>
