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  • There are various ready-made plugins on doing file upload for jQuery. Doing this kind of uploading hacks is not an enjoyable experience, so people enjoy using ready-made solutions. Here's few: - JQuery File Uploader - Multiple File Upload Plugin - Mini Multiple File Upload - jQuery File Upload You can search for more projects on NPM (using "jquery-plugin" as the keyword) or on Github.
    – Cheery
    Commented Oct 15, 2008 at 10:35
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    you are only getting the file name because your var filename is getting the value of $('#file'), not the file that lies in the input
    – Jimmy
    Commented Nov 3, 2009 at 16:01
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    Here's a good one: http://blueimp.github.io/jQuery-File-Upload/ - HTML5 ajax uploading - Graceful fallback to iframes for unsupported browsers - Multi-file async upload We've used it and it works great. (Documentation here)
    – Ashish Panery
    Commented Apr 12, 2013 at 18:35
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    Check also this: stackoverflow.com/questions/6974684/…, here it explains how to achieve it via jQuery
    – Federico J.
    Commented Jan 15, 2014 at 12:09
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    @Jimmy How would he get the get the file that lies in the input instead?
    – alex
    Commented Dec 5, 2014 at 18:05