{"id":9098,"date":"2020-09-05T05:25:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T09:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=9098"},"modified":"2021-12-04T07:12:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T07:12:48","slug":"allow-multiple-file-uploads-html-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/allow-multiple-file-uploads-html-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Allow Multiple File Uploads in HTML Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to allow multiple file uploads using a single file input control in your <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/html\">HTML<\/a> website projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to allow a user to upload the file to your <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/websites\">website<\/a>, you need to use a file upload box, also known as a file select box. This is created using the element and the type attribute is set to file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To allow multiple file uploads in HTML forms, use multiple attributes. The multiple attributes work with email and file input types.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong><br>You can try to run the following code to select multiple files and be able to pick up multiple files at once for uploading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-markup\">&lt;title&gt;Upload multiple files&lt;\/title&gt;\n \n&lt;form&gt;\n    &lt;input type=&quot;file&quot; name=&quot;name&quot; multiple=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n    &lt;input type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;Submit&quot;&gt;\n&lt;\/form&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you hit the submit button the files will be uploaded to the server where it can be handled by the appropriate underlying back-end <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/technology\">technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how to allow multiple file uploads using a single file input control in your HTML website projects. 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