Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

form

Synopsis

<form>...</form>

Indicates an interactive form that contains controls for collecting user input and other page content. 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

Core(id, class, style, title), Internationalization, Events, (plus onsubmit, onblur)

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 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=" 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.

method="get|post"

Specifies which HTTP method will be used to submit the form data. With ...