jQuery Multiple Image Upload with Preview and Delete

A lightweight jQuery plugin that lets you to create multiple image upload with preview and delete feature. The plugin supports drag & drop functionality to upload multiple images. It uses a static HTML form without using AJAX that holds images before upload.

Users can drag multiple images in HTML (upload) form and see image thumbnail before upload. Moreover, the plugin can be fully customized according to your needs.

Plugin Overview and Preview

Plugin: image-uploader
Author: christianbayer
Category: Text & Input
Published: July 21, 2019
File Type: zip archive (HTML, CSS & JavaScript )
Package Size: 13 KB
Dependencies: jQuery 3.0 or Latest version
Last Modified:
MIT
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How to Use Multiple Image Uploader with Preview & Delete

1. First of all load jQuery and Google Material Icons fonts into your HTML page to getting started with Image-Uploader plugin.

<!-- jQuery -->
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js"></script>
   
<!--Material Design Iconic Font-->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons">

2. After that, also include Image-Uploader‘s CSS and JavaScript file.

<!-- Image Uploader CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="dist/image-uploader.min.css">

<!-- Image Uploader Js -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="dist/image-uploader.min.js"></script>

3. Create an HTML form with the attribute enctype="multipart/form-data" that contains div for simple image uploading feature.

<form action="http://example.com/post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

   <div class="input-images"></div>

</form>

3.1  Basically, the following is the complete HTML structure for image preview and delete before uploaded.

<form method="POST" name="form-example-2" id="form-example-2" enctype="multipart/form-data">

    <div class="input-field">
        <input type="text" name="name-2" id="name-2" value="John Doe">
        <label for="name-2" class="active">Name</label>
    </div>

    <div class="input-field">
        <input type="text" name="description-2" id="description-2"
        value="This form is already filed with some data, including images!">
        <label for="description-2" class="active">Description</label>
    </div>

    <div class="input-field">
        <label class="active">Photos</label>
        <div class="input-images-2" style="padding-top: .5rem;"></div>
    </div>

    <button>Submit and display data</button>

</form>

4. Finally, initialize the plugin in jQuery document ready function to active jQuery multiple image upload with preview and delete feature.

$(document).ready(function(){

   $('.input-images').imageUploader();

});

For more advanced usage, please check the Configuration Options tab.

Advanced Configuration Options for Multiple Image Upload with Preview and Delete

The following are some advanced configuration options to create/customize “multiple image upload with preview and delete”.

Option Description, Default, Type
label This option defines the label text for a draggable area that helps users to understand what to do. Default: ‘Drag & Drop files here or click to browse’, Type: String.

$('.input-images').imageUploader({
  label: 'Drag & Drop files here or click to browse',
});
preloaded Define the preloaded images for upload form. Default: [], Type: Array of Objects.

$('.input-images').imageUploader({
   preloaded: [
    {id: 1, src: 'https://picsum.photos/500/500?random=1'},
    {id: 2, src: 'https://picsum.photos/500/500?random=2'},
   ];
});
imagesInputName It defines the name of the input that will be posted, containing the files list. Default: ‘images’, Type: String.

$('.input-images').imageUploader({
   imagesInputName: 'Custom Name',
});
preloadedInputName Show the name of the inputs that will be posted, containing the identification of the preloaded image. Default: ‘preloaded’, Type: String.

$('.input-images').imageUploader({
   preloadedInputName: 'Custom Name',
});

Changelog

27/11/2019

  • Fixed material icons dependency.
  • Bugs fixed.

7/11/2019

  • Updated.

6/11/2019

  • Added max files validation.
  • Removed ‘validateExtension’ option.

16/07/2019

  • Initial release.

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33 Comments

  1. how can we limit numbers of images and how can we check image types as well as if we want to upload(preview) images at the time of edit how can we do that ?

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  3. how can we remove images ? when i removed, it only remove form front end side but in server side i did not get the correct selected images array as “images array”

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  5. I spent an hour or so and have patched the code so that images can be now be correctly deleted. How may I commit my changes to the repository, or can the maintainer contact me via email and I will send him the patched versions both minified and source.

    Regards

    Reply

  7. can i get the code as per
    “I spent an hour or so and have patched the code so that images can be now be correctly deleted. How may I commit my changes to the repository, or can the maintainer contact me via email and I will send him the patched versions both minified and source.”

    Reply

  18. Front add images works great, I can drag and drop images and front will display thumbnail,
    But the server fail to upload images, also I didn’t find any data in $_FILES['postimages']
    What ‘s wrong?
    can you give a example to display how wordpress can obtain $_FILES['postimages']?

    $('.input-images').imageUploader({
imagesInputName: 'postimages',
});

    above in js

    if (isset($_FILES['postimages']) && !empty($_FILES['postimages'])) {
			$files = $_FILES['postimages'];
			if (isset($files) && $files) {
				foreach ($files['name'] as $key => $value) {
					if ($files['name'][$key]) {
						$file = array(
							'name'	   => $files['name'][$key]["file_url"],
							'type'	   => $files['type'][$key]["file_url"],
							'tmp_name' => $files['tmp_name'][$key]["file_url"],
							'error'	   => $files['error'][$key]["file_url"],
							'size'	   => $files['size'][$key]["file_url"]
						);
						
						$attachment = wp_handle_upload($file,array('test_form' => false),current_time('mysql'));
						if (!isset($attachment['error']) && $attachment) :
							$attachment_data = array(
								'post_mime_type' => $attachment['type'],
								'post_title'	 => preg_replace('/\.[^.]+$/','',basename($attachment['file'])),
								'post_content'   => '',
								'post_status'	 => 'inherit',
								'post_author'    => (!is_user_logged_in() && $add_post_no_register == "on"?0:$user_id),
							);
							$attachment_id = wp_insert_attachment($attachment_data,$attachment['file'],$post_id);
							$attachment_metadata = wp_generate_attachment_metadata($attachment_id,$attachment['file']);
							wp_update_attachment_metadata($attachment_id,$attachment_metadata);
							$postimpages_array[] = array("added_file" => $attachment_id);
						endif;
					}
				}
				if (isset($postimpages_array)) {
					add_post_meta($post_id,'postimages',$postimpages_array);
				}
			}
		}
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  19. use wp_upload_bits instead of wp_handle_upload in wordpress, make this jquery plugin work perfectly.
    Very thanks for the author, great job.

    Reply

  20. Firstly, thanks to the author for this plugin and George Embrey for his patch

    But i faced another problem:
    The deleting of images does not work when showing preloaded images. That is, when showing the upload form with preloaded images and then you select and add images. If any of these added images are deleted, the image preview is deleted but they are still sent to the server when the form is posted.

    Solution:
    I did a little modification on the patched code from @George Embrey. Now the problem explained above has been fixed. The maintainer can contact me via email and I will gladly send him the modified source code.

    Regards

    Reply

  22. Hello,
    I am facing same issue for safari even its not working on iPhone with different browsers so if there any alternate for DataTransfer? Or any other good plugin with same functionality for multiple image upload, preview, delete and preload as well? Let me know if anyone did this.
    Thank you.

    Reply

  23. Hi, Sorry to repeat what everybody has been saying but “deleting” files its not working. I downloaded the Asif Mughal file that George modified but still cant delete images added (they only are removed from the preview). Does anyone has a version with the delete file working? Ty

    Reply

  24. Just to clarify, the problem is when deleting the FIRST image that appears in the preview. That first image will be uploaded even if deleted from the preview. If you delete any other image it seems to be working fine.

    Reply

  25. I corrected the error. I changed – if ($container.data("index")) – on the button function for –if ($container.data("index") >= 0)– and it works.

    $button.on("click", function (e) {
                prevent(e);
                if ($container.data("index") >= 0) { <--- this line
    Reply

  27. how do I use javascript to get imageUploader content and files source before posting data to php? because i need to use javascript to get imageUploader content and image files then use ajax to call php function and post the imageUploader content and file source to php controller there.

    Reply

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