content/programming/Using files from web applications.md

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Title: "Using files from web applications" Date: 2017-02-27 18:02:03 Categories: [programming] tags: [javascript]

Authors: sedlav

Using the File API, which was added to the DOM in HTML5, it's now possible for web content to ask the user to select local files and then read the contents of those files. This selection can be done by either using an HTML <input> element or by drag and drop.

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