I'm trying to display a image selected from my computer in my web app. I referred the following question which addresses the question i'm trying to fix.
How to display selected image without sending data to server?
I have my html part like this
<div className="add_grp_image_div margin_bottom">
<img src={img_upload} className="add_grp_image"/>
<input type="file" className="filetype" id="group_image"/>
<span className="small_font to_middle">Add group image</span>
<img id="target"/>
</div>
I want to display the selected image in
<img id="target"/>
How can i do this?
I referred FileReader
docs as well.
Hook version:
const [image, setImage] = useState(null)
const onImageChange = (event) => {
if (event.target.files && event.target.files[0]) {
setImage(URL.createObjectURL(event.target.files[0]));
}
}
return (
<div>
<input type="file" onChange={onImageChange} className="filetype" />
<img alt="preview image" src={image} />
</div>
)
Class version
render() {
return (
<div>
<input type="file" onChange={this.onImageChange} className="filetype" />
<img alt="preview image" src={this.state.image}/>
<div/>
)
}
onImageChange = (event) => {
if (event.target.files && event.target.files[0]) {
this.setState({image: URL.createObjectURL(event.target.files[0])});
}
}
Another solution is to use FileReader
onImageChange = (event) => {
if (event.target.files && event.target.files[0]) {
const reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = (e) => {
setImage(e.target.result);
};
reader.readAsDataURL(event.target.files[0]);
}
}
Working demo: https://codesandbox.io/s/priceless-cerf-my900b