Styling an input type=“file” button

Question

How do you style an input type=\"file\" button?

Answer 1

css can do a lot here... with a little trickery...

  


#wrapper {
     width: 93px; /*play with this value */
     height: 28px; /*play with this value */
     background: url('browseBtn.png') 0 0 no-repeat;
     border:none;
     overflow:hidden;
}

#browse{
     margin-left:-145px; /*play with this value */
     opacity:0; /* set to .5 or something so you can better position it as an overlay then back to zero again after you're done */
     -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=0)";
     filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=0);
}

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-abbey