How to Hide Input Textbox
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This article shows how to completely hide the input textbox field of the RadUpload so that only the Select button is shown.
Here is the RadUpload declaration:
<telerik:radupload id="RadUpload1" runat="server" width="230px" controlobjectsvisibility="None"
targetfolder="uploads" initialfileinputscount="1">
</telerik:radupload>
Here is the CSS rules you need to place in the <head>
section of your page:
<style type="text/css">
div.RadUpload .ruFakeInput
{
visibility: hidden;
width: 0;
padding: 0;
}
div.RadUpload .ruFileInput
{
width: 1;
}
</style>
Here is the final result: