Web Developer's Reference Guide

Forms

Forms are great for getting information from the user. They usually have multiple elements inside them that accept input from the user. The data acquired from the input of the user is then sent to the server to process.

Form

The syntax of the form element is as follows:

<form accept-charset action autocomplete enctype method name novalidate target></form>

Attributes

The attributes that are used in the form element are as follows:

• accept-charset: This is a list of character encodings that the server accepts. This can be a space- or comma-delimited list.
• action: This is the URL that will process the form.
• autocomplete: This lets the browser know whether it can autocomplete this form with previous values.
• enctype: This sets the MIME type for the content ...