1111313 - Allow "Browse…" button-text to be customized, on <input type="file"> button

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1662478

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Shanmugavel Arunachalam]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Build ID: 20141127111021

Steps to reproduce:

I have added a file upload option in project.


Actual results:

file upload browse button is coming with undescore or three donts. "Browse_" / "Browse..."


Expected results:

Expected. "Browse"

Comment 1

[Loic]

Could you attach a testcase, please.

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Testcase is presumably something like: data:text/html,<input type="file">, which renders as " [Browse...][---textbox---]"

It sounds like the reporter wants the ability to customize the "Browse..." text, on the integrated button.

I'm not sure if that's possible, offhand.  You can use the "value" attribute on <input type="submit"> -- e.g. data:text/html,<input type="submit" value="hello"> -- but that doesn't seem to work for type="file".

(In any case, I think this belongs in DOM, not in Layout:FormControls, since changing the label would be done via the DOM somehow (or via some attribute on the <input>).  Reclassifying.)

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This sounds like a request for a spec change more than anything else, to allow customizing the text.

The UI convention for controls that will lead to posing of a dialog is to have an ellipsis after the label, so the default behavior is not going to change from that.

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven't been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

If you have questions, please contact :mdaly.

Comment 5

[Anne (:annevk)]

Once there's a specification for this we'll consider it.

Comment 6

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]]

There is, and we implement it.