Emulate a file upload click in jQuery

Question

I have an <img ... /> tag that I have bound a click event to in jQuery. When it is clicked I'd like to have it emulate the click of a button on the file upload to open the file system browse pop-up. I've tried these things within the click function and had no success:

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$(".hiddenUploadBtn").click();
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$(".hiddenUploadBtn").select();
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$(".hiddenUploadBtn").submit();
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Answer 1

You can't do that programmatically - the browsers won't let you for security reasons.