Jquery - Best way to style a Input file tag

Question

Hi,
what is the best, clean and simplest way to style a <input type="file" tag?

Thanks in advance!
Peter

Answer 1

1. Make the input type="file" transparent.

2. Put a layer behind that which will be your visual for the file upload.

3. Style the new layer

Answer 2

first hit on google seems to be very good:

http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/inputfile.html