I’m working on a notebook where I want to start with my own image as an example, but allow the reader to replace it with a local image file. This means that I need to be able to detect if my file input is in the “No file chosen” state, so that I can use the default image in that case. But I can’t f…

The input in the following notebook was convenient for me when doing similar things: [image] File Input An Observable notebook by Mike Bostock.

Detecting the "No file chosen" state in a file input

coballester October 27, 2019, 6:55pm 5

Hi Mike, this is what I was looking for. But I can’t chose files in Safari using this technique. Any tip? Thanks

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