Thank you Daniel, then the users will just re enter the files and feel secure :)
On May 26, 1:42 pm, Daniel Roseman <roseman.dan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On May 26, 12:30 pm, Bastien <bastien.roche...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > When I have some validation errors in my forms they automatically get > > reloaded after POST with all the fields already filled with what the > > user already introduced before POST and she only has to change > > whatever was wrong in the first place. But for files or images, the > > path disappears and the user has to choose again which image she wants > > to upload. I'd like these fields to appear populated along the others. > > > I thought sending form = Form(request.POST, request.FILES) to the > > template was enough. Is there something I missed or do these fields > > need to be populated in another way? > > > thanks, > > Bastien > > This question comes up here occasionally. Here's what I said last > time: > > This isn't a Django issue. It's a standard property of browsers: you > can't set an initial value for file input fields. This is a security > measure, to stop malicious pages uploading files from your hard drive > without your explicit instruction. > There isn't really any way round it, except to do something extremely > complicated like GMail does and upload the file in the background > while the user fills in the form, then replace the file field with a > reference to the uploaded version of the file. > -- > DR. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
