Note:
The answer(s) below reflect the state of legacy browsers in 2009. Now you can actually set the value of the file input element via JavaScript in 2017.
See the answer in this question for details as well as a demo:
How to set file input value programatically (i.e.: when drag-dropping files)?
I have a website that allows the user to upload a file multiple times for processing. At the moment I have a single file input but I want to be able to remember the users choice and show it on the screen.
What I want to know how to do is after a user selects a file I will remember their choice and redisplay the file input with the file pre-selected on reload of the page. All I need to know is how to remember and repopulate a file input.
I am also open to approaches that don't use a file input (if that is possible).
I am using JQuery