# multipart remote\_form\_for

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/multipart-remote-form-for/16482>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [August 1, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/multipart-remote-form-for/16482 "2007-08-01T19:54:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Ball\_Donald\_A\_Jr\_Lib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f475e1/32.png) [@Ball\_Donald\_A\_Jr\_Lib](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Ball_Donald_A_Jr_Lib)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/multipart-remote-form-for/16482/1 "2007-08-01T19:54:30Z")

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I'm trying to figure out how to create an AJAXified form with remote\_form\_for that can submit a file upload, to no avail. Any pointers for me?

- donald

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**Author:** ![jeff\_emminger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aca169/32.png) [@jeff\_emminger](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/jeff_emminger)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/multipart-remote-form-for/16482/2 "2007-08-03T02:34:13Z")

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you can't upload files with pure ajax. if you google 'ajax file upload' you'll find options resorting to such trickery as iframes or flash