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How to change "Choose file" Text using Bootstrap?

Last Updated : 23 Jul, 2025

In web development, forms may include the file upload functionality which allows user to select files from their device. The standard HTML <input> element with type="file" provides us with this feature. But the default text displayed on the file input button is "Choose File," which may or may not be appropriate for our website.

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Choose file color change using Bootstrap 5


Approach:

  • At first create a basic Html structure and link the Bootstrap 5 CDN links.
  • Then add an <input> element with type="file" to create a file upload control.
  • For the style of your web page you can use those bootstrap 5 class like "container" , "row" , "form-control", "visually-hidden" for creates a responsive fixed-width container, define row within the Bootstrap grid system, styling to form elements ,hides an element.
  • After that you can use the javascript for dynamically update the text , color of the text for that you can use the javascript classList.add() and classList.remove() method.

Example : Below is the code example of how to change "Choose file" text using Bootstrap 5

Output:

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Choose file color change using Bootstrap 5
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