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I'm using the following input field 

<input class="upload_button" type="file" multiple="" name="userfile">

To upload multiple files to a system, I can't work out how to style this with CSS properly, as the button and input box seem to be binded together?!

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  • do you want to make input field beautiful? Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 13:52

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You can't use CSS to style <input type="file"/> element directly; this is a precaution used by web browsers to prevent user's into being tricked into uploading files.

But there are techniques that work around it, using transparency that works well. http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/inputfile.html

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Wow, lot of answers very quickly - thanks everybody for your help - I'll look into the quirksmode link, seems like it would do the job nicely. Thanks Scott.
No problem. Good luck, let us know if you get stuck with anything.
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I dont have much experience with it but i found a link which might help you: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/inputfile.html

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You should make type="file" multiple with z-index:-1; for example and make image appear
(with z-index:1;) in the same place where is your input file field.

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As Scott said, you can't directly style some input elements because they are dependent on your environment (browser and OS). I have not had great luck using workarounds, and prefer solutions that replace them elegantly. One i like in particular is uniform.js.

http://uniformjs.com/

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