Setting Form EncType Dynamically To Multipart/Form-Data In IE (Internet Explorer)

Does firefox also work with "encoding" rather than just "enctype"? Would save you an extra line :).

Thanks Ben for documenting this behavior of IE. I was breaking my head for quite sometime to find out why my AJAX file upload is not working in IE.

Regards
Sudar

in opera and firefox also work whit "encoding". Thanks for the tip!

thanks for the tip. this has saved me hours of recoding!

Thank you very much.

Ahh, I really wish this was higher up in Google when search terms are something like "ie dynamically create upload form" or "ie upload form bug", woulda saved me a lot of time. Thanks for documenting this.

Thanks, helped one I had the inspiration to google it!

Thanks, now working...

Thanks for the useful post, save me lots of time.

The right-and-strict implementation should be:

$('form#upload-form').attr((this.encoding ? 'encoding' : 'enctype') , 'multipart/form-data');

Cheers!

YEE HAWW!! This post saved my bacon!!! Thanks!!

Hi Ben, Again, great site. I've got another question for you. I'm trying to upload a file from flex via remoteobject with amf.

Now the coldfusion file (actually cfc method) that I'm supposed to work with used to work with a form field, html style; Using <cffile formfield= ... etc. When I'm in flex I have the file as a bytearray, but can change it to other data types if needed (string etc.). Blah Blah, here is the question. Do you know what format coldfusion is looking for when it grabs the form field that holds the reference to the file? I can't seem to find any documentation on this and I need to know it so I can try and get flex to convert to that format first and then send it as a variable to the cfc.

Great! I was getting mad with this bug!

Ben,

I found out that IE uses 'image/pjpeg' instead of 'image/jpeg'. As a matter of fact, enctype="multipart/form-data" works for ALL browsers for as long as you check for what it returns. IE had to return something else :))

Regards,
Ravi.

Thanks for sharing this. It really helped me in fixing my issue. I was able to find that IE is not sending the file and using wrong Content-Type while posting data. Your post helped me in solving it. Thank you.

Thank you. I am created the form in JavaScript and set EncType in 'multipart/form-data', but Internet Explorer do not understand this property and sended this form with enctype in 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'. Now I've added encoding and everything started working normally.

very helpful, many thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanx

Very helpful ... I had this problem using Eclipse build-in browser but set the encoding property solved the issue ... Thanks a lot

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

I banged my head on this problem for half a week before I stumbled across this little gem...

Hi Ben,

In Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702, I faced a problem of access to the property "enctype" of the form.
To solve the problem, I used the following line of code:
$ ('form # upload-form'). get (0). encoding = 'multipart/form-data';

To remove the encoding, use 'text/plain' for example.

Congratulations for this site!
Best regards

i am using VS 2010
when i i remove this line
//form.attr("enctype", "multipart/form-data");
from the code. the iframe.load triggers but the file dos not reach the server.
on the other hand if i leave this line.
the files received by the server but the even will not be triggered.

any help please.

You are hero,man
it is very well point

Use jQuery attrHook to solve the pb!

$.attrHooks.enctype = {
get: function( elem ) {
return $.nodeName( elem, 'form' ) ?
elem.encoding || elem.enctype :
null;
}
,set: function( elem, value ) {
if ( $.nodeName( elem, 'form' ) && elem.encoding )
elem.encoding = value;
}
};

I prefere do this:

$('input[type=\"file\"]').each(function(i, it) {
$(it).closest('form').attr('enctype', 'multipart/form-data').attr('encoding', 'multipart/form-data');
});

this code stays at my global.js an any form ho had file input be right.

Hello ben.
I'm taking enctyple problem and i didnt set yet. How can i set my codes ? Can you help me please? My codes are;

$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'resimekle.asp',
data: $('#resimekleme').serialize(),
success: function(ajaxCevap2) {
$('#resimeklesonuc').html(ajaxCevap2);
}
});

I must add enctype to date area. How can we do this ? Thank you before your help.

Hello Bilal,

I think you are looking for this:
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'resimekle.asp',
data: $('#resimekleme').serialize(),
},
contentType:'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8',
success: function(ajaxCevap2) {
$('#resimeklesonuc').html(ajaxCevap2);
}
});

See you around Charlotte soon :)
Henry

@Henry,
First of all thank you for your help. But it doent work. I tried again and took same error.

POST http://localhost/bartu2/adminpanel/resimekle.asp 500 (Internal Server Error) uygulamaresim.asp:19
o.extend.ajax uygulamaresim.asp:19
rle uygulamaresim.asp (2):4
onclick

All my codes are here. Can you check again for me ?

form.asp

<script language="javascript">
function rle(){
$("#resimeklesonuc").html('<img src="../imgs/loading.gif" />');
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'resimekle.asp',
data: $('#resimekleme').serialize(),
contentType:'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8',
success: function(ajaxCevap2) {
$('#resimeklesonuc').html(ajaxCevap2);
}
});
}
</script>

<h2>Resim Ekle</h2>
<form id="resimekleme" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<div>Resim Aç?klamas? : </div><input name="resimaciklama" type="text" style="width:200px;" /><br/>
<div>Resim : </div><input name="dosya" type="file" /><br/>
<input name="resimekle" value="Resim Ekle" onclick="rle()" type="button" />
</form>
<div id="resimeklesonuc"></div>

resimekle.asp

<%
Set upload = server.CreateObject("Persits.Upload")
upload.save
aciklama=upload.Form("resimaciklama")
on error resume next
set dosya=upload.Files("dosya")
response.Write dosya.filename
%>

Thank you

Is there any issue with setting the default enctype of a form to multipart/form-data if there are no files uploaded? I am making a form that uses a flash system for uploading and falls back to a regular file input for non flash users. I was going to default the form to allow for the file uploads but I suspect the majority of my users will have flash running on their system.

Great site Ben, I keep stumbling across it and now you are bookmarked :)

Thanks a lot.

After struggling for a day came across your blog. It just resolved my issue within minute.

Appreciate your effort for providing solution and publishing it on the web.

Hi,

I want to upload multiple files in one shot. I was using FormData component. Now problem is FormData is not supporting in IE... Can you please help me in this?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks,
Pritee

Was struggling with IE for 2 days. Frustration started replacing Patience. If I had found this solution two days ago, life would have been easier; but mostly I might not have appreciated value of knowledge over information.