Q:

How can I populate the textbox of an HTML file input?

This one has got me stumped.  I am currently rendering a form using ASP MVC, it has a bunch of fields, one of them is an <input type="file"...
The file upload works great, but when I return the form to the user, the textbox that contains the file is empty.  I would like to show the filepath in the textbox, but it appears the value field does not populate this textbox.
Ie. <input type="file" value="abc.txt" /> does not put "abc.txt" into the textbox.
How can I populate the textbox of an HTML file input?  Is there another property that I should be using other than the value property?
Any help would be much appreciated,

A:

That textbox is readonly and you can't explicitly set the value of it.

