HTML5 Pocket Reference, 5th Edition

Name

form

Synopsis

<form> . . . </form>

Indicates an interactive form that contains controls for collecting user input as well as other page content. There may be more than one form in a document, but forms may not be nested inside one another, and it is important that they do not overlap.

Usage

Categories:

Flow content, palpable content

Permitted contexts:

Where flow content is expected

Permitted content:

Flow content, but it may not contain other form elements

Start/end tags:

Required/Required

Attributes

HTML5 Global Attributes

accept-charset="charset list"

Specifies the list of character encodings for input data that must be accepted by the server to process the current form. The value is a space- and/or comma-delimited list of ISO character set names. The default value is unknown. This attribute is not widely supported.

action="URL"

Required. Specifies the URL of the application that will process the form. The default is the current URL.

autocomplete="on|off"

Not in HTML 4.01. Allows the user agent (browser) to fill in a field automatically (on) or requires the user to enter the information every time (off).

enctype="content type"

Specifies how the values for the form controls are encoded when they are submitted to the server when the method is post. The default is the Internet Media Type (application/x-www-form-urlencoded ). The value multipart/form-data should be used in combination with the file input element. The new text/plain value sets the MIME type to text/plain.

method="GET|POST"

Specifies ...