---
title: "File uploads · vuejs.school"
description: "Pick files without v-model, check their type and size, show previews with object URLs and release them, then send them as multipart FormData to a Nuxt route that checks what it really received."
canonical_url: "https://vuejs.school/learn/forms/file-uploads"
meta:
  "og:description": "Pick files without v-model, check their type and size, show previews with object URLs and release them, then send them as multipart FormData to a Nuxt route that checks what it really received."
  "og:image": "https://vuejs.school/_og/d/a_~RmlsZSB1cGxvYWRzIMK3IHZ1ZWpzLnNjaG9vbA%2Cc_OgCard.takumi%2Ctitle_File%2Buploads%2Cdescription_~UGljayBmaWxlcyB3aXRob3V0IHYtbW9kZWwsIGNoZWNrIHRoZWlyIHR5cGUgYW5kIHNpemUsIHNob3cgcHJldmlld3Mgd2l0aCBvYmplY3QgVVJMcyBhbmQgcmVsZWFzZSB0aGVtLCB0aGVuIHNlbmQgdGhlbSBhcyBtdWx0aXBhcnQgRm9ybURhdGEgdG8gYSBOdXh0IHJvdXRlIHRoYXQgY2hlY2tzIHdoYXQgaXQgcmVhbGx5IHJlY2VpdmVkLg%2Ceyebrow_~Rm9ybXMgwrcgTGVzc29uIDQgb2YgNA%2Ctint_mint%2Cp_Ii9sZWFybi9mb3Jtcy9maWxlLXVwbG9hZHMi%2Cs_yOeVI147WG6TI3GB.png"
  "og:image:alt": "File uploads · vuejs.school"
  "og:image:height": "600"
  "og:image:type": image/png
  "og:image:width": "1200"
  "og:title": "File uploads · vuejs.school"
  "twitter:image": "https://vuejs.school/_og/d/a_~RmlsZSB1cGxvYWRzIMK3IHZ1ZWpzLnNjaG9vbA%2Cc_OgCard.takumi%2Ctitle_File%2Buploads%2Cdescription_~UGljayBmaWxlcyB3aXRob3V0IHYtbW9kZWwsIGNoZWNrIHRoZWlyIHR5cGUgYW5kIHNpemUsIHNob3cgcHJldmlld3Mgd2l0aCBvYmplY3QgVVJMcyBhbmQgcmVsZWFzZSB0aGVtLCB0aGVuIHNlbmQgdGhlbSBhcyBtdWx0aXBhcnQgRm9ybURhdGEgdG8gYSBOdXh0IHJvdXRlIHRoYXQgY2hlY2tzIHdoYXQgaXQgcmVhbGx5IHJlY2VpdmVkLg%2Ceyebrow_~Rm9ybXMgwrcgTGVzc29uIDQgb2YgNA%2Ctint_mint%2Cp_Ii9sZWFybi9mb3Jtcy9maWxlLXVwbG9hZHMi%2Cs_yOeVI147WG6TI3GB.png"
  "twitter:image:alt": "File uploads · vuejs.school"
---

> Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://vuejs.school/llms.txt)

# **File uploads**

Pick files without v-model, check their type and size, show previews with object URLs and release them, then send them as multipart FormData to a Nuxt route that checks what it really received.

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/#website","@type":"WebSite","description":"A free AI-instructed school for Vue.js. Short tutorials, runnable code and quizzes that adapt to you.","name":"vuejs.school","url":"https://vuejs.school/","publisher":{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/#identity"}},{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/learn/forms/file-uploads#webpage","@type":"WebPage","description":"Pick files without v-model, check their type and size, show previews with object URLs and release them, then send them as multipart FormData to a Nuxt route that checks what it really received.","name":"File uploads","url":"https://vuejs.school/learn/forms/file-uploads","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/learn/forms/file-uploads#breadcrumb"},"isPartOf":{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/#website"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://vuejs.school/learn/forms/file-uploads"]}],"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/#logo"}},{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/#identity","@type":"Organization","description":"A free AI-instructed school for Vue.js. Short tutorials, runnable code and quizzes that adapt to you.","name":"vuejs.school","url":"https://vuejs.school","logo":{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/#logo"}},{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/learn/forms/file-uploads#article","description":"Pick files without v-model, check their type and size, show previews with object URLs and release them, then send them as multipart FormData to a Nuxt route that checks what it really received.","headline":"File uploads","inLanguage":"en","isAccessibleForFree":true,"thumbnailUrl":"https://vuejs.school/_og/d/a_~RmlsZSB1cGxvYWRzIMK3IHZ1ZWpzLnNjaG9vbA%2Cc_OgCard.takumi%2Ctitle_File%2Buploads%2Cdescription_~UGljayBmaWxlcyB3aXRob3V0IHYtbW9kZWwsIGNoZWNrIHRoZWlyIHR5cGUgYW5kIHNpemUsIHNob3cgcHJldmlld3Mgd2l0aCBvYmplY3QgVVJMcyBhbmQgcmVsZWFzZSB0aGVtLCB0aGVuIHNlbmQgdGhlbSBhcyBtdWx0aXBhcnQgRm9ybURhdGEgdG8gYSBOdXh0IHJvdXRlIHRoYXQgY2hlY2tzIHdoYXQgaXQgcmVhbGx5IHJlY2VpdmVkLg%2Ceyebrow_~Rm9ybXMgwrcgTGVzc29uIDQgb2YgNA%2Ctint_mint%2Cp_Ii9sZWFybi9mb3Jtcy9maWxlLXVwbG9hZHMi%2Cs_yOeVI147WG6TI3GB.png","@type":["Article","TechArticle"],"articleSection":["Forms"],"author":{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/#identity"},"image":{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/#/schema/image/1"},"isPartOf":{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/learn/forms/file-uploads#webpage"},"keywords":["input type=\"file\"","FileList and File","URL.createObjectURL()","FormData","multipart/form-data","readMultipartFormData()"],"mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/learn/forms/file-uploads#webpage"},"publisher":{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/#identity"}},{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/learn/forms/file-uploads#breadcrumb","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","name":"Skill tree","item":"https://vuejs.school/track","position":1},{"@type":"ListItem","name":"Forms","item":"https://vuejs.school/track/forms","position":2},{"@type":"ListItem","name":"File uploads","position":3}]},{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/#logo","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"vuejs.school","contentUrl":"https://vuejs.school/apple-touch-icon.png","inLanguage":"en","url":"https://vuejs.school/apple-touch-icon.png"},{"@id":"https://vuejs.school/#/schema/image/1","@type":"ImageObject","contentUrl":"https://vuejs.school/_og/d/a_~RmlsZSB1cGxvYWRzIMK3IHZ1ZWpzLnNjaG9vbA%2Cc_OgCard.takumi%2Ctitle_File%2Buploads%2Cdescription_~UGljayBmaWxlcyB3aXRob3V0IHYtbW9kZWwsIGNoZWNrIHRoZWlyIHR5cGUgYW5kIHNpemUsIHNob3cgcHJldmlld3Mgd2l0aCBvYmplY3QgVVJMcyBhbmQgcmVsZWFzZSB0aGVtLCB0aGVuIHNlbmQgdGhlbSBhcyBtdWx0aXBhcnQgRm9ybURhdGEgdG8gYSBOdXh0IHJvdXRlIHRoYXQgY2hlY2tzIHdoYXQgaXQgcmVhbGx5IHJlY2VpdmVkLg%2Ceyebrow_~Rm9ybXMgwrcgTGVzc29uIDQgb2YgNA%2Ctint_mint%2Cp_Ii9sZWFybi9mb3Jtcy9maWxlLXVwbG9hZHMi%2Cs_yOeVI147WG6TI3GB.png","inLanguage":"en","url":"https://vuejs.school/_og/d/a_~RmlsZSB1cGxvYWRzIMK3IHZ1ZWpzLnNjaG9vbA%2Cc_OgCard.takumi%2Ctitle_File%2Buploads%2Cdescription_~UGljayBmaWxlcyB3aXRob3V0IHYtbW9kZWwsIGNoZWNrIHRoZWlyIHR5cGUgYW5kIHNpemUsIHNob3cgcHJldmlld3Mgd2l0aCBvYmplY3QgVVJMcyBhbmQgcmVsZWFzZSB0aGVtLCB0aGVuIHNlbmQgdGhlbSBhcyBtdWx0aXBhcnQgRm9ybURhdGEgdG8gYSBOdXh0IHJvdXRlIHRoYXQgY2hlY2tzIHdoYXQgaXQgcmVhbGx5IHJlY2VpdmVkLg%2Ceyebrow_~Rm9ybXMgwrcgTGVzc29uIDQgb2YgNA%2Ctint_mint%2Cp_Ii9sZWFybi9mb3Jtcy9maWxlLXVwbG9hZHMi%2Cs_yOeVI147WG6TI3GB.png"}]}
```