<tr>
                    <th>
                        @Html.LabelFor(m => m.NewsBody)
                    </th>
                     <td>
                        @Html.TextAreaFor(m => m.NewsBody, new { @class = "my-textBox" })
                        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.NewsBody)
                    </td>
                </tr>

<script type="text/javascript">

    // Call this function on upload button click after user has selected the file
    function UploadFile() {
        var file = document.getElementById('etlfileToUpload').files[0];
        if(file == null) {return;}
        var fileName = file.name;
        var fd = new FormData();
        fd.append("fileData", file);
        var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
        xhr.upload.addEventListener("progress", function (evt) { UploadProgress(evt); }, false);
        xhr.addEventListener("load", function (evt) { UploadComplete(evt); }, false);
        xhr.addEventListener("error", function (evt) { UploadFailed(evt); }, false);
        xhr.addEventListener("abort", function (evt) { UploadCanceled(evt); }, false);
        xhr.open("POST", "/AP/FileUpload", true);
        xhr.send(fd);
    }


    function UploadProgress(evt) {
        if (evt.lengthComputable) {
            var percentComplete = Math.round(evt.loaded * 100 / evt.total);
            $("#uploading").text(percentComplete + "% ");
        }
    }

    function UploadComplete(evt) {
        if (evt.target.status == 200){
            //alert(evt.target.responseText);
            $("#uploading").text("Upload Success");
            $(".path").text(evt.target.responseText);
            document.getElementById('etlfileToUpload').parentNode.innerHTML = document.getElementById('etlfileToUpload').parentNode.innerHTML;

            }
        else {
            $("#uploading").text("Error Uploading File");
            //alert("Error Uploading File");
        }
    }

    function UploadFailed(evt) {
        alert("There was an error attempting to upload the file.");
    }

    function UploadCanceled(evt) {
        alert("The upload has been canceled by the user or the browser dropped the connection.");
    }

</script>





 [HttpPost]
        public JsonResult FileUpload(HttpPostedFileBase fileData)
        {
            string path = "";
            if (fileData != null)
            {
                string pic = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(fileData.FileName);
                path = System.IO.Path.Combine(Server.MapPath("~/news.resource"), pic);
                // file is uploaded
                fileData.SaveAs(path);
                path = pic;
                // save the image path path to the database or you can send image directly to database
                // in-case if you want to store byte[] ie. for DB
                /*using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
                {
                    fileData.InputStream.CopyTo(ms);
                    byte[] array = ms.GetBuffer();
                }*/

            }
            // after successfully uploading redirect the user
            return Json(path);
            //return RedirectToAction("actionname", "controller name");
        }