You can have as many <file> elements in a form as you want, and you can process them all at once. My web host (LunarPages) has a decent file manager, one of the functions it has is the ability to upload up to 12 files at a time.

I don't know of any single tag to render such a form, but that's really what you need, and it should be trivial to write (although I'd bet it exists somewhere). It's the server-side processing that *could* be tricky (although I think Commons Upload would deal with it just fine, probably give you a collection or something, I forget what the interface looks like.)

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Günther Wieser wrote:
this is standard browser behaviour, haven't seen any browser who would allow
you to select more than one file.
reason for that is that your form only includes one form field of type file,
so how can the browser add more than one file in a way that your app
understands this?

the only chance for multiple file selection is to ask the user before
generation of the form "how many files do you want to upload", or by adding
another file field to the form as soon as the user selects one (using
javascript; but this is quite ugly and can make a lot of troubles with
different browser or javascript-disabled ones...)
or he/she upload a zip file...

if there is someone outside who knows a better solution, let us know, this
is a very common problem.

kr,
guenther

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Wow, what browser is that? Can they hold down CTRL? (assuming Windows)

Rakefet Bitton wrote:


Hi, I'm using the "file" tag to select a file from my jsp. The default browser allows the user to select only 1 file at a time. The user can not multi select files or a directory.

Does anyone know of a multi-select file and directory chooser?

Thanks very much.



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