Question

Following up on this post, I have another issuer – how can I trigger the browse file in the input when I click on a text link?

Basically I want to hide the form but it will be triggered when you click on the upload text link.

<a href="#" class="upload">upload</a>
<form action="upload.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" id="myForm" style="display:none;">
  <input type="file" multiple="multiple" name="file[]" />
  <input type="submit" name="upload" value="Submit"/>
</form>
<div id="output"></div>

This is my working Javascript code:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('.upload').click(function(){
        $(this).trigger($('input[type=file]'));
        return false;
    });

    $('input[type=file]').change(function() {
        $('#myForm').ajaxSubmit({
               target: '#output'
        });
    });
});

Answer 1

You can’t use style="display:none;" use style="visibility:hidden;"

and I changed trigger to click:

$('.upload').click(function(){
    $('input[type=file]').click();
    return false;
});

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Reasoning:

The input fields will not be sent to the server with display:none, but will be with visibility:hidden.