Is there any way to check file size before uploading it using JavaScript?
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JQuery example provided in this thread was extremely outdated, and google wasn't helpful at all so here is my revision:
<script type="text/javascript">
$('#image-file').on('change', function() {
console.log($(this)[0].files[0].name+' file size is: ' + $(this)[0].files[0].size/1024/1024 + 'Mb');
});
</script>
It's pretty simple.
var oFile = document.getElementById("fileUpload").files[0]; // <input type="file" id="fileUpload" accept=".jpg,.png,.gif,.jpeg"/>
if (oFile.size > 2097152) // 2 MiB for bytes.
{
alert("File size must under 2MiB!");
return;
}
I ran across this question, and the one line of code I needed was hiding in big blocks of code.
Short answer: this.files[0].size
By the way, no JQuery needed.
If you set the Ie 'Document Mode' to 'Standards' you can use the simple javascript 'size' method to get the uploaded file's size.
Set the Ie 'Document Mode' to 'Standards':
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge">
Than, use the 'size' javascript method to get the uploaded file's size:
<script type="text/javascript">
var uploadedFile = document.getElementById('imageUpload');
var fileSize = uploadedFile.files[0].size;
alert(fileSize);
</script>
It works for me.
You can try this fineuploader
It works fine under IE6(and above), Chrome or Firefox
I made something like that:
$('#image-file').on('change', function() {
var numb = $(this)[0].files[0].size/1024/1024;
numb = numb.toFixed(2);
if(numb > 2){
alert('to big, maximum is 2MiB. You file size is: ' + numb +' MiB');
} else {
alert('it okey, your file has ' + numb + 'MiB')
}
});<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="file" id="image-file">I use one main Javascript function that I had found at Mozilla Developer Network site https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Using_files_from_web_applications, along with another function with AJAX and changed according to my needs. It receives a document element id regarding the place in my html code where I want to write the file size.
<Javascript>
function updateSize(elementId) {
var nBytes = 0,
oFiles = document.getElementById(elementId).files,
nFiles = oFiles.length;
for (var nFileId = 0; nFileId < nFiles; nFileId++) {
nBytes += oFiles[nFileId].size;
}
var sOutput = nBytes + " bytes";
// optional code for multiples approximation
for (var aMultiples = ["K", "M", "G", "T", "P", "E", "Z", "Y"], nMultiple = 0, nApprox = nBytes / 1024; nApprox > 1; nApprox /= 1024, nMultiple++) {
sOutput = " (" + nApprox.toFixed(3) + aMultiples[nMultiple] + ")";
}
return sOutput;
}
</Javascript>
<HTML>
<input type="file" id="inputFileUpload" onchange="uploadFuncWithAJAX(this.value);" size="25">
</HTML>
<Javascript with XMLHttpRequest>
document.getElementById('spanFileSizeText').innerHTML=updateSize("inputFileUpload");
</XMLHttpRequest>
Cheers
Using jquery:
<form action="upload" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
Upload image:
<input id="image-file" type="file" name="file" />
<input type="submit" value="Upload" />
<script type="text/javascript">
$('#image-file').bind('change', function() {
alert('This file size is: ' + this.files[0].size/1024/1024 + "MiB");
});
</script>
</form>
No Yes, using the File API in newer browsers. See TJ's answer for details.
If you need to support older browsers as well, you will have to use a Flash-based uploader like SWFUpload or Uploadify to do this.
The SWFUpload Features Demo shows how the file_size_limit setting works.
Note that this (obviously) needs Flash, plus the way it works is a bit different from normal upload forms.
Works for Dynamic and Static File Element
Javascript Only Solution
function ValidateSize(file) {
var FileSize = file.files[0].size / 1024 / 1024; // in MiB
if (FileSize > 2) {
alert('File size exceeds 2 MiB');
// $(file).val(''); //for clearing with Jquery
} else {
}
} <input onchange="ValidateSize(this)" type="file">If you're using jQuery Validation, you could write something like this:
$.validator.addMethod(
"maxfilesize",
function (value, element) {
if (this.optional(element) || ! element.files || ! element.files[0]) {
return true;
} else {
return element.files[0].size <= 1024 * 1024 * 2;
}
},
'The file size can not exceed 2MiB.'
);
Even though the question is answered, I wanted to post my answer. Might come handy to future viewers.You can use it like in the following code.
<input type="file" id="fileinput" />
<script type="text/javascript">
function readSingleFile(evt) {
//Retrieve the first (and only!) File from the FileList object
var f = evt.target.files[0];
if (f) {
var r = new FileReader();
r.onload = function(e) {
var contents = e.target.result;
alert( "Got the file.n"
+"name: " + f.name + "n"
+"type: " + f.type + "n"
+"size: " + f.size + " bytesn"
+ "starts with: " + contents.substr(1, contents.indexOf("n"))
);
if(f.size > 5242880) {
alert('File size Greater then 5MiB!');
}
}
r.readAsText(f);
} else {
alert("Failed to load file");
}
}
Source: Stackoverflow.com