Uploading files/image with Ajax & Jquery, without submitting a form

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Uploading files image with ajax jquery

Here is the code for uploading an image or file without submitting a form with Ajax. For this we will create object of FormData class and will append the properties of the file field in a attribute of FormData object, finally we will set the FormData object with the data key of ajax method of JQuery.

<input id="avatar" type="file" name="avatar" />

<button id="upload" value="Upload" />

$(document).on("click", "#upload", function() {
	var file_data = $("#avatar").prop("files")[0];   // Getting the properties of file from file field
	var form_data = new FormData();                  // Creating object of FormData class
	form_data.append("file", file_data)              // Appending parameter named file with properties of file_field to form_data
	form_data.append("user_id", 123)                 // Adding extra parameters to form_data
	$.ajax({
                url: "/upload_avatar",
                dataType: 'script',
                cache: false,
                contentType: false,
                processData: false,
                data: form_data,                         // Setting the data attribute of ajax with file_data
                type: 'post'
       })
})

We can get the parameters of file field by accessing the "file" key of the parameters hash. Sorry to say, but the FormData class is not supported in IE. :( If you are looking for a solution that works on all browsers have a look at Upload image without submitting form, works on all browsers.

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  • Comment avatar
    Massimo_indiealmost 9 years agoReply

    Bad solution, because it doesn't work in IE < 10

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      Jeromeover 8 years agoReply

      also, very bad browser who never follow the international convention but sale his shit (it s a shame).
      the great solution his to definitively ignore ie and ever said that you need chrome or firefox (it's better more and free).

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    Hemant panchalover 6 years agoReply

    Thanks a lot. You are a Lifesaver :) Nice work.

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    Varysabout 6 years agoReply

    How to access the extra parameters that was added in php? Like in your example, how to access 'user_id'?

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    Agrawalalmost 6 years agoReply

    I am unable to get form_data in upload_avatar file so please tell me how to get it ?

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    Deepali guptaalmost 5 years agoReply

    Thanks...now my project is almost complete which was in pending since last few week.

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    Tamover 4 years agoReply

    if you want post a status like Facebook with this source code. How to post a status(textarea not ) and images using ajax?

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    Olehover 4 years agoReply

    Thanks. It helped me a lot.

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    Lal kumar raialmost 4 years agoReply

    I have multiple images and tried to upload using FormData without submiting form. And when i console.log FormData values using entries method it shows the images object too. But the problem is when i send using ajax , and when i try to print_r the request datas, it shows empty. I am using laravel 5.5 and i am not being able to upload the images. Can you guide me ?

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    Nimsover 3 years agoReply

    Thanks. It worked for me.

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