javascript - Alternate to onchange event in <input type='file' />

Question

Seems really a simple thing but can't figure it out. I've been using the onchange event on <input type=file /> element and it works well. Once the user browses and selects a file, I get the path and upload it using a my custom js function.

The problem is this doesn't work if a user selects the same file twice in a row, the onchange doesn't fire (which makes sense since nothing changed) but in my case it's important for me to capture that event too, get the path and upload.

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(Similar to Clearing <input type='file' /> using jQuery, not sure if I should resolve this as duplicate)

Answer 1

You can just remove the input and create an identical one with javascript - the new one will be empty.

(edited answer to be straight to the point, comments are irrelevant now)