How to get the full path to the selected folder

Question

I created <input type="file" name="files" id="fld1" webkitdirectory > in the html file.

I can get files using

  var imageFiles = document.getElementById("fld1"), filesLength = imageFiles.files.length; for (var i = 0; i < filesLength; i++) { alert(imageFiles.files[i].name); } 

How can I get the full path to the directory selected in javascript. please, help

I want to show all image files available in any folder using the jquery slider. I can get the name of the files present in this folder, but I can not get the full path to the folder. how can i get this.

I did this to get the file path, but it only worked in IE

 <script language="JavaScript"> function GetDirectory() { strFile = document.MyForm.MyFile.value; intPos = strFile.lastIndexOf("\\"); strDirectory = strFile.substring(0, intPos); alert(strFile + '\n\n' + strDirectory); return false; } </script> 

Answer 1

For obvious security reasons, you cannot do this. Browsers will not allow you to access and examine the file system of client computers using javascript. Some browsers will simply return some fake file path.

Answer 2

Check the File API documentation , the File section contains information about the File object.

Quote from the document:

File name; upon receipt, this should return the file name as a string. There are many file name options for different systems; it's just a file name, no path information . Upon receipt, if user agents cannot make this information available, they should return an empty string.