Re: Form fields and Widget to select a directory

Assuming I understand you correctly, this is an HTML limitation.
Browsers do not support multiple-file upload prior to HTML5. And even
then, AFIK only webkit-based browsers will give you a way to select
directories instead of individual files.

_Nik

On 5/2/2012 11:53 AM, fanchyna wrote:
> I have a question on django which has been bothering me for a while. I
> tried to search it from the web but could not get an answer.
>
> What I want to do is to select a "directory" (only the path, not
> including file) from the local file system.
>
> When I was designing my models.py (actually, I use ModelForm since I
> already have had the models defined), either the FileField or
> FilePathField does not work because they only allow me to select file,
> rather than a directory name. Do you know how I can do that?
>
> I use FileInput as the widget for this field. But this only allows me
> to select a file, rather than a directory. Should I use another one?
>
> For the fields that I really need a file, I use FilePathField, but
> after I choose a file, the text box is not editable (everytime I put
> my cursor into the text box, the file picker prompts out). Is there
> anyway to edit the text box while keeping using the file picker?
>

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