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select-files
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Virtually creates a file input element (), triggers it and returns selected files.
Virtually creates a file input element (<input type="file" />), triggers it and returns selected files.
import selectFiles from 'select-files';
selectFiles({ accept: 'image/*', capture: 'camera' }).then(files => {
// ...
});
This library is published in the NPM registry and can be installed using any compatible package manager.
npm install select-files --save
# For Yarn, use the command below.
yarn add select-files
This module has an UMD bundle available through JSDelivr and Unpkg CDNs.
<!-- For UNPKG use the code below. -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/select-files"></script>
<!-- For JSDelivr use the code below. -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/select-files"></script>
<script>
// UMD module is exposed through the "selectFiles" global function.
selectFiles({ multiple: true }).then(files => {
console.log(files);
});
</script>
Documentation generated from source files by Typedoc.
Released under MIT License.
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Virtually creates a file input element (), triggers it and returns selected files.
The npm package select-files receives a total of 2,259 weekly downloads. As such, select-files popularity was classified as popular.
We found that select-files demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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