How to get full path of selected file on change of input type file using javascript jquery-ajax

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How to get full path of file while selecting file using <input type=‘file’>

<input type="file" id="fileUpload">
<script type="text/javascript">
function getFilePath(){
     $('input[type=file]').change(function () {
         var filePath=$('#fileUpload').val(); 
     });
}
</script>

but the filePath var contains only name of selected file, not the full path.
Is there any other way to get full path of selected file?

Jun 11, 2020 in Java-Script by kartik
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3 answers to this question.

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Hello @kartik,

You can use the following code to get a working local URL for the uploaded file:

<script type="text/javascript">    
    var path = (window.URL || window.webkitURL).createObjectURL(file);
    console.log('path', path);
</script>

Hope this helps!!

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thank you!

answered Jun 11, 2020 by Niroj
• 82,880 points
Thankyou so much. Saved my time.
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For security reasons browsers do not allow this, i.e. JavaScript in browser has no access to the File System, however using HTML5 File API, only Firefox provides a mozFullPath property, but if you try to get the value it returns an empty string:

$('input[type=file]').change(function () {
    console.log(this.files[0].mozFullPath);
});
answered Dec 16, 2020 by Rajiv
• 8,910 points
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You have to download the file with some server-side language (asp, C#, etc), and then open it. Client-side language does not have access to file location for security reasons.
answered Nov 29, 2022 by Wilson S.S

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