Create a custom file upload control in React

Spencer Feng
1 min readMar 20, 2021

We use <input type=”file”> to trigger the OS browser dialogue for the user to select a file from his computer for file upload. However, the look of the control is too primitive to be used directly in most applications and you cannot modify much about the control itself. In this article, I will share a way to create a custom file upload control in React.

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