Question

For reading local files this guide here uses the following code:

function handleFileSelect(evt) {
    var files = evt.target.files; // FileList object
    ...

and

<input type="file" multiple>

This works perfectly fine, but what if I want to access only a single file, because I am using the input file type without multiple. Is accessing the FileList arrays first index the only way?

var files = evt.target.files; // FileList object
var singleFile = files[0];

Answer 1

You will have to use the files[0] as you are accessing a FileList collection http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#dfn-filelist

The other syntax you could use is files.item(0)