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Specifying the size of a FileUpload control on Firefox

Jun 27, 2008 1 min read

Apparently there seems to be a problem on Firefox when you want to specify a size for a

file-upload box (which is an HTML input control of type "file"). If you just specify the width as style tag it will (surprisingly ;) ) work with IE but for some reason not with Firefox.

The solution to this problem is to specify a "size" attribute like:

<input type="file" id="someId" name="someName" size="10"/>

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