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HTML
<div class="upload-form">
<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<div class="upload">
<input type="file" name="file-input">
<span class="input-filename">Select a file...</span>
<input type="button" value="Browse">
</div>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload">
<span class="valid-formats">Valid input: .txt files <= 512 KB</span>
</form>
</div>
CSS
.upload:hover input[type='button'],
.browse-hover {
background: #9972ad; /* Old browsers */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #9972ad 0%, #7a3e99 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#9972ad), color-stop(100%,#7a3e99)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #9972ad 0%,#7a3e99 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #9972ad 0%,#7a3e99 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #9972ad 0%,#7a3e99 100%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #9972ad 0%,#7a3e99 100%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#9972ad', endColorstr='#7a3e99',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-8 */
}
.browse-active {
background: red;
}