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The .val() should work. I've tried it and it works on FF3.5, IE6+,
Safari and Chrome (all WinXP).
The only differences I found is that FF, Safari, Chrome returns just
the filename, whereas IE6+7 returns the full path of the user file
(privacy issue), and IE8 uses 'C:\fakepath' as the directory
(misleading..).

well,
I ll be more specific, here is the code part
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$("#image_overlay_group_form").ajaxForm({
success: function(msg) {
var downLat = $("#image_overlay_sw_lat").val();
var downLon = $("#image_overlay_sw_lng").val();
var upLat = $("#image_overlay_ne_lat").val();
var upLon = $("#image_overlay_ne_lng").val();
var fileName = $("#image_overlay_file").val();
alert("rs image filename: " + fileName + " , " + upLon
+ ", "+ downLat); // --> this has empty values!!
$("#" + project_name + "_" + layer_name +"_"+
group_name+ "_new_legend_feature_entry_point").after(msg);
},
resetForm: true // Reset the form after a successful AJAX
call
});
**
my guess is that the form inputs are emptied somehow and thus no
values are available...but in some other ajaxForms i have, i use the
same technique and it works..
I ll keep trying but any suggestions are much appreciated!

ok, problem was the resetForm:true.
Setting it to false fixes the empty values...for now.
cheers,