Find the path of a local file or directory in javascript

Question

We are building a web application to help people organize their local files; it has a text input field in HTML5/JS.

Ideal functionality: user clicks on the text

Answer 1

Due to browser security, you cannot get the file location from a FILE input. For that same reason, you will notice that FILE inputs always get reset to blank after a postback. This is because the browser will not persist or expose the file path as a security measure.