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I googled it and found out that i can listen the onchange event on input type="file". But this works only with input without the multiple attribute. Does anyone know how to listen "files selected" event and fire a function after user has selected the files?

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<input type="file" multiple name="files" />

and in jquery:

$("input[type='file']").on("change", function(){
   var files = $(this).prop("files");  // you'll get selected file(s)

   console.log(files);  // here will display files as objects with their properties. Check with Chrome console what properties are.
});

if files is undefined then the browser must support HTML5.

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