With HTML5 you can make file uploads with Ajax and jQuery. Not only that, you can do file validations (name, size, and MIME type) or handle the progress event with the HTML5 progress tag (or a div). Recently I had to make a file uploader, but I didn't want to use Flash nor Iframes or plugins and after some research I came up with the solution.
The HTML:
<form enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input name="file" type="file" />
<input type="button" value="Upload" />
</form>
<progress></progress>
First, you can do some validation if you want. For example, in the .on('change')
event of the file:
$(':file').on('change', function () {
var file = this.files[0];
if (file.size > 1024) {
alert('max upload size is 1k');
}
// Also see .name, .type
});
Now the $.ajax()
submit with the button's click:
$(':button').on('click', function () {
$.ajax({
// Your server script to process the upload
url: 'upload.php',
type: 'POST',
// Form data
data: new FormData($('form')[0]),
// Tell jQuery not to process data or worry about content-type
// You *must* include these options!
cache: false,
contentType: false,
processData: false,
// Custom XMLHttpRequest
xhr: function () {
var myXhr = $.ajaxSettings.xhr();
if (myXhr.upload) {
// For handling the progress of the upload
myXhr.upload.addEventListener('progress', function (e) {
if (e.lengthComputable) {
$('progress').attr({
value: e.loaded,
max: e.total,
});
}
}, false);
}
return myXhr;
}
});
});
As you can see, with HTML5 (and some research) file uploading not only becomes possible but super easy. Try it with Google Chrome as some of the HTML5 components of the examples aren't available in every browser.
Modern jQuery
Use .prop()
:
$('.myCheckbox').prop('checked', true);
$('.myCheckbox').prop('checked', false);
DOM API
If you're working with just one element, you can always just access the underlying HTMLInputElement
and modify its .checked
property:
$('.myCheckbox')[0].checked = true;
$('.myCheckbox')[0].checked = false;
The benefit to using the .prop()
and .attr()
methods instead of this is that they will operate on all matched elements.
jQuery 1.5.x and below
The .prop()
method is not available, so you need to use .attr()
.
$('.myCheckbox').attr('checked', true);
$('.myCheckbox').attr('checked', false);
Note that this is the approach used by jQuery's unit tests prior to version 1.6 and is preferable to using $('.myCheckbox').removeAttr('checked');
since the latter will, if the box was initially checked, change the behaviour of a call to .reset()
on any form that contains it – a subtle but probably unwelcome behaviour change.
For more context, some incomplete discussion of the changes to the handling of the checked
attribute/property in the transition from 1.5.x to 1.6 can be found in the version 1.6 release notes and the Attributes vs. Properties section of the .prop()
documentation.
Best Answer
forked from codepen
Or even this one