How to get full path of selected file on change of input type file using javascript jquery-ajax

Question

How to get full path of file while selecting file using <input type=‘file’>

<input type="file" id="fileUpload">
<script type="text/javascript">
function getFilePath(){
     $('input[type=file]').change(function () {
         var filePath=$('#fileUpload').val(); 
     });
}
</script>

but the filePath var contains only name of selected file, not the full path.
Is there any other way to get full path of selected file?

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

You can use the following code to get a working local URL for the uploaded file:

<script type="text/javascript">    
    var path = (window.URL || window.webkitURL).createObjectURL(file);
    console.log('path', path);
</script>

Hope this helps!!

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thank you!

Comments

Thankyou so much. Saved my time.

Answer 2

For security reasons browsers do not allow this, i.e. JavaScript in browser has no access to the File System, however using HTML5 File API, only Firefox provides a mozFullPath property, but if you try to get the value it returns an empty string:

$('input[type=file]').change(function () {
    console.log(this.files[0].mozFullPath);
});

Answer 3

You have to download the file with some server-side language (asp, C#, etc), and then open it. Client-side language does not have access to file location for security reasons.