fileUpload control appearance - asp.net

I use fileUpload control in asp.net web page, so how could I control the "browse" button, just like any other button?
etc. I want to change "browse button" back color, border style.
Thank you in advance.

how could I control the "browse" button, just like any other button?
What makes you sure there will be a browse button? That's up to the web browser; some might not have a text-plus-browse arrangment at all. In particular Safari arranges the control quite differently.
For reasons of security, and because there is no standardisation about what a file upload control should look like, CSS gives you almost no control of the style of file upload controls.
Whilst the opacity hack mentioned in phoenix's link does kind of work, I wouldn't recommend it at all. There's no guarantee of getting the ‘clickable’ part of the input control lined up with the part of your ersatz control that looks clickable. Even on a single browser, different fonts and other settings will mess it up. For example on my browser with the quirksmode example only the right half of the textbox is clickable to open the browse dialogue; clicking the faux-button does nothing and clicking the left edge of focuses the faux-textbox. With fake-input you will be offering a shoddy and in the worst case broken experience to many of your visitors.
Live with the default upload styling, or augment it with a Flash uploader in the progressive-enhancement manner.

You can add a div layer on top of the fileupload control and style the div layer. Make the file upload control transparent by setting its opacity.
A good one
Styling an input type="file"

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ASP.NET FileUpload - How to change the language of the "Browse..." button description?

I know the very similar question was posted here already (How to change the Text of the browse button in the FileUpload Control (System.Web.UI.WebControls)) and I understand it's not possible to change the description to some custom text, but isn't it at least possible to change it to a different language (e.g. to English)?
I'd like to do it so that my web page is whole in one language (because e.g. "Procházet..." instead of "Browse..." in the middle of English web page looks kind of weird to me).
This is determined at the browser level, unless you moved to something like a flash-based uploader (or <iframe> trickery), you can't customize it. Whatever language/localization the user's browser is in (usually based on the OS setting), that's the language they'll get on the "Browse..." button.
If your page is for consumers likely already in that language, then you're all set, the default behavior works. If people with another language setting come by, well...that's the language they picked, so it should be an intuitive button label, even if it doesn't match.
Although there is direct way to change the Caption of InputFile control,but you can always go for alternative way,
Add InputFile control to you page let's say "fileUpload" and make it Hidden or invisible.
Add new HTMLButton on form with Text Whatever you wanted to give it to your fileupload button (in addition you can also add TextBox too to show uploaded file name when events being gets handle at server side).
Onclick even of above button use below javascript
document.getElementById("fileUpload").click();
It will do the same thing without showing up default InputFile control.
No, it's a matter of client's operating system.

Asp.net ajax combobox doesn't display correctly when inserted inside a tab control

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when my tab control loads on the page where the combobox is, everything works fine; however, if it loads on a another page, the you change to the page which contains the combobox, the right button (which opens the list of the combobox) isn't displayed at all.
Has someone been through this behavior? And maybe found a solution ?
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Use Firebug in FireFox (this tool is very good if you dont use it) and right-click the area where your drop arrow should be, then select "Inspect Element". At the bottom of your browser screen, you will see a couple windows. One window will detail teh styles being applied to the arrow area.
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I am looking for a control which can show me selected image detail view which is actually gonna be bigger image in a modal pop up to show a better view of image to my customers. You know those standard modal pop-up resizeable to selected image original size. Dynamicly resizable modal pop-up is actually what I am looking for and of course it should be for Asp.net (if possible for 3.5)
I've searching for a while but I haven't been able to come up with a acceptable solution yet.
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You may also need to roll your own from jQuery of YUI to build the resizeable requirement that you want.
You might want to have a look at Telerik:
http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax.aspx
The have some controls that would probably get the job done.
Otherwise search for Infragistics, they have similar controls.

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