<form>—Creating XHTML Forms

You use the <form> element to create an XHTML form, which you use to contain XHTML controls such as buttons and text fields. This element is supported in XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset, and XHTML 1.1. Here are its attributes:

  • accept— Holds a comma-separated list of content types that a server processing this form must handle correctly. (XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset, XHTML 1.1, 4.)

  • accept-charset— Holds a list of possible language character sets for the form data. (XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset, XHTML 1.1, 4.)

  • action— Required. Gives the URI that will handle the form data. (XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.0 Frameset, ...

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