[Bug]: <input type="file"> is not showing dialog on click

[staniel359]

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• I have read the Contributing Guidelines for this project.
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• I have searched the issue tracker for a bug report that matches the one I want to file, without success.

Electron Version

30.0.1

What operating system are you using?

Ubuntu

Operating System Version

22.04

What arch are you using?

x64

Last Known Working Electron version

29.3.0

Expected Behavior

Files dialog should open:

Actual Behavior

Doesn't:
Screencast from 01-05-24 12:24:10.webm

Testcase Gist URL

No response

Additional Information

I'm calling it from WebContentsView.

[tufik2]

I believe you will need to use Electron Native API to read / write to show dialogs... This is executed in the main render, so you will need to use IPC to communicate between your render (HTML) and your main render (nodeJS)
https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/dialog

const { dialog } = require('electron')
console.log(dialog.showOpenDialog({ properties: ['openFile', 'multiSelections'] }))

[staniel359]

@tufik2 But it was working from renderer before.
Could this be an issue with WebContentsView?

[Kilian]

Hi @staniel359, I created this test fiddle: https://gist.github.com/Kilian/f1566f60bd54ab1ca5dd8ed6887aa1d1 and it works fine for me on Ubuntu 23.04 on both electron 30.0.1 and 30.0.2. Does this example work for you? If it does, can you made a reduced fiddle showing the issue?

[staniel359]

@Kilian

[izaakschroeder]

I believe I have experienced this issue also.

[Kilian]

@staniel359 You'll get your issue resolved faster if you supplied a testcase.

[safris]

@Kilian, please see #42018 for a test case 🙏

[82318179]

For example, this website: https://convertio.co/zh/ico-converter/ Its function is to upload. If you load this website in browserview and click the upload button on the website page, a file selection box will pop up. However, once you use WebContentsView to load the website and click the upload button on the page, there is no response. When can this bug be fixed? my os is win11

[codebytere]

Looks like i fixed this incidentally to another bug: #41966. The PR has been backported to 30 already and will be out in the next patch release!