In simple html + js applications when I need to open dialogues of some interactive input elements (such as input[type="file"] or input[type="date"] or input[type="color"]) any non-standard way (with a button or on page load) the most strait forward way is to trigger click event on above mentioned elements. But I couldn't find a way to do that in pure elm (without ports). I see for DOM events manipulation there is focus trigger, but no click. Am I missing something? Is it not the "elm way" of doing things?
Reading throught the MDN on File element I saw they suggest to use <label> to trigger the element without JavaScript:
<input type="file" id="fileElem" multiple accept="image/*" style="display:none" onchange="handleFiles(this.files)">
<label for="fileElem">Select some files</label>
elm-fileinputhttps://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_files_from_web_applications
Found a library for <input type="file">: https://github.com/lovasoa/elm-fileinput.
Also I have put up a working example using the decoder from this lib: https://runelm.io/c/ie0.