Ie 9 Jquery Not Setting Input Value

my question is simple: I have an input file field, and i want to limit it to only accept .GIFs via Jquery , and if the format is wrong, set the input value blank. The problem is th

Solution 1:

From IE8 it is readonly try:

$("input[type='file']").replaceWith($("input[type='file']").clone(true));

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