One click upload button

Question

I am looking to create a button which when clicked opens a dialog window where they select an image to upload and then once they select it and press ok within the dialog window the upload begins (upload bar optional :) )

Preferable it would be a jquery plugin that modifys the functionality of the standard html file input... as I have already written the code using one.

Answer 1

SWFUpload is able to do that. It is a Flash-based upload component that you can interact with using JavaScript.

Demo

Answer 2

There are other flash based solutions other than SWFupload. Have a look at uploadify.com

This is a jquery plugin.

Answer 3

JQuery plugin uploadify will upload with a progress bar, and includes functionality for single or multiple file uploads.

(It also requires Flash)