Styling issue for file upload in form

[kurteknikk]

In a very simple form i try to include a file upload input box but jqm fails to style it well.

See: http://spot1.spotmaster.com/dev/live/jqm_form.php for more information, thanks.

[toddparker]

We don't style a file input for a number of reasons. First, some mobile platforms don't support this type of input (namely iOS). Second, it's very hard to style because of security features built into browsers. For now, we're not going to style these but feel free to add this issue to the feature request wiki page and we'll take a look post 1.0.

[dipold]

Do exec $('input[type="file"]').textinput({theme: 'c'});

It is not perfect but better than nothing

[kurteknikk]

Yeah it would have been better to have it styled from jquery mobile, but it works thanks :)

[toddparker]

@dipold - When you apply the textinput plugin to file inputs, does it style it consistently across platforms? I assumed it wouldn't be that simple based on our experience in the past. Might look better on a few platforms though.

[dipold]

Thanks @toddparker

But as I said better than nothing.
I, for example, use JQM for backend webpages to desktop access because the JQM is very simply, beautiful interface and practical (I use to webapps and mobile web pages too).
I read yours reasons but I have seen many ask for this feature then the JQM team should consider the style it in a future.

Kind regards,

Now that iOS 6 supports file upload and Android and BB for quite some time, it would be great to have a styling option for this type of input.

[toddparker]

We recently landed this feature for 1.3. See the input page for an example:
http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/forms/textinputs/

Awesome, thanks in advance!