Is it possible to replace the Uploadify button (which is a graphic containing up/over/down states) with a simple CSS-styled button?
I've been able to come up with a working solution to this. Here's the basic outline:
buttonImg: " "
wmode:"transparent"
button
or a
tag behind the flash objectThe flash object will shield the button underneath it from mouseover etc. events; so to get hover effects, you'll need to take a couple of additional steps:
.hover()
events on the wrapper div and apply styles to the buttonPutting it all together:
HTML
<div class="UploadifyButtonWrapper">
<a>Upload Files</a>
<div class="UploadifyObjectWrapper">
<input type="file" id="Uploadify" name="Uploadify" />
</div>
</div>
CSS
div.UploadifyButtonWrapper{
position:relative;
}
/* fake button */
div.UploadifyButtonWrapper a {
position:absolute; /* relative to UploadifyButtonWrapper */
top:0;
left:0;
z-index:0;
display:block;
float:left;
border:1px solid gray;
padding:10px;
background:silver;
color:black;
}
/* pass hover effects to button */
div.UploadifyButtonWrapper a.Hover {
background:orange;
color:white;
}
/* position flash button above css button */
div.UploadifyObjectWrapper {
position:relative;
z-index:10;
}
Javascript:
$("input.Uploadify", self).uploadify({
...
buttonImg: " ",
wmode: "transparent",
...
});
var $buttonWrapper = $(".UploadifyButtonWrapper", self);
var $objectWrapper = $(".UploadifyObjectWrapper", self);
var $object = $("object", self);
var $fakeButton = $("a", self);
var width = $fakeButton.outerWidth();
var height = $fakeButton.outerHeight();
$object.attr("width", width).attr("height", height);
$buttonWrapper.css("width", width + "px").css("height", height + "px")
$objectWrapper.hover(function() {
$("a", this).addClass("Hover");
}, function() {
$("a", this).removeClass("Hover");
});