Baseline Widely available
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The File()
constructor creates a new File
object instance.
new File(fileBits, fileName)
new File(fileBits, fileName, options)
Parameters
fileBits
An iterable object such as an Array
, having ArrayBuffer
s, TypedArray
s, DataView
s, Blob
s, strings, or a mix of any of such elements, that will be put inside the File
. Note that strings here are encoded as UTF-8, unlike the usual JavaScript UTF-16 strings.
fileName
A string representing the file name or the path to the file.
options
Optional
An options object containing optional attributes for the file. Available options are as follows:
type
Optional
A string representing the MIME type of the content that will be put into the file. Defaults to a value of ""
.
endings
Optional
How to interpret newline characters (\n
) within the contents, if the data is text. The default value, transparent
, copies newline characters into the blob without changing them. To convert newlines to the host system's native convention, specify the value native
.
lastModified
Optional
A number representing the number of milliseconds between the Unix time epoch and when the file was last modified. Defaults to a value of Date.now()
.
const file = new File(["foo"], "foo.txt", {
type: "text/plain",
});
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HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4