Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Name

<form> — NN 2, 3, 4, 6 MSIE 2,3, 4, 5.5, 6 HTML 4.01 WebTV Opera5

Synopsis

<form> ... </form>

Indicates the beginning and end of a form. There can be more than one form in an HTML document, but forms cannot be nested inside one another, and it is important that they do not overlap.

Attributes

accept= content-type-list

Specifies a comma-separated list of file types (MIME types) that the server will accept and is able to process. Browsers may one day be able to filter out unacceptable files when prompting a user to upload files to the server, but this attribute is not yet widely supported.

accept-charset= charset list

Specifies the list of character encodings for input data that must be accepted by the server in order 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.

enctype= encoding

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.

method=get|post

Specifies which HTTP method will be used to submit the form data. With get (the default), the information is appended to and sent along with the URL ...