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Problem:<\/h2>\n

I wanted a way for users to upload multiple files to a server on a webpage. \u00a0I found a great jQuery plugin that does drag & drop and multiple file upload<\/a>. \u00a0 Under browser support you can see that IE is supported, however there are special notes. \u00a0MSIE does not support drag & drop and multiple file support. \u00a0So basically, the script works with IE where users can upload 1 file at a time.<\/p>\n

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Solution:<\/h2>\n

From my research, it turns out that it is impossible to do multiple upload (same goes for drag and drop) to IE. \u00a0The browser just simply does not support it. \u00a0There are many scripts out there that say “multiple upload” and say it works with IE, but it’s not truly multiple file upload. \u00a0The script actually just allows you to upload multiple files with one request, not select multiple files at one time. \u00a0So in other words, the file browser opens and you can only select one file. \u00a0Then you can open the file browser again and select another file. \u00a0If you had 10 files, you would have to repeat this process 10 times instead of just highlighting multiple files if it had true multiple file support.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that is the “workaround” which is not acceptable for me. \u00a0So IE users just won’t have a multiple upload feature in my project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,39],"yoast_head":"\nNo Multiple Upload for IE - My Monkey Do<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/no-multiple-upload-for-ie\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No Multiple Upload for IE - 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