I recently wrote on how to customize the default upload button but I want to explore more into this topic and try other options.
I designed an interface to upload a user avatar
How to
We'll start with our HTML
<main>
<input type="file" name="image" id="image" accept="image/*" />
<div id="preview-wrapper">
<div id="preview"></div>
<button
id="upload-button"
aria-label="upload image"
aria-describedby="image"
>
🙂
</button>
</div>
</main>
Styling
We give some style for our user avatar.
#avatar {
background-color: antiquewhite;
height: 200px;
width: 200px;
border: 3px solid #0af;
border-radius: 50%;
transition: background ease-out 200ms;
}
#preview {
position: relative;
}
We then hide our input
input[type="file"] {
display: none;
}
Then our custom upload button
button {
padding: 18px;
border-radius: 50%;
border: none;
cursor: pointer;
background-color: #08f;
box-shadow: 0px 3px 5px -1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2),
0px 6px 10px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14),
0px 1px 18px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12);
transition: background-color ease-out 120ms;
position: absolute;
right: -5%;
bottom: 0%;
}
button:hover {
background-color: #45a;
}
We've reached our design goal 🙌, but we aren't done yet.
Some JavaScript
Our initialization
const UPLOAD_BUTTON = document.getElementById("upload-button");
const FILE_INPUT = document.querySelector("input[type=file]");
const AVATAR = document.getElementById("avatar");
When our custom button is clicked, we have to programmatically click the input element
UPLOAD_BUTTON.addEventListener("click", () => FILE_INPUT.click());
To render our image
FILE_INPUT.addEventListener("change", event => {
const file = event.target.files[0];
const reader = new FileReader();
reader.readAsDataURL(file);
reader.onloadend = () => {
AVATAR.setAttribute("aria-label", file.name);
AVATAR.style.background = `url(${reader.result}) center center/cover`;
};
});
WE ARE DONE!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Source code available at codepen.io and github
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