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HTML form accept-charset Attribute


HTML form Tag Reference HTML <form> tag

Definition and Usage

The accept-charset attribute specifies the different character encoding sets the form application will process correctly.

Syntax

<form accept-charset="character_sets">

Syntax Example

<form accept-charset="ISO-8859-1">

Attribute Values

Value Description
character_sets A comma-separated list of character set types accepted by the form processing server.

Most common charset values:

  • UTF-8 - UTF-8 is character encoding for Unicode. Can represent any character in the Unicode standard and is compatible with ASCII.
  • ISO-8859-1 - Standard character encoding of the Latin alphabet

In theory, any character encoding that has been registered with IANA can be used, but no browser understands all of them. The more widely a character encoding is used, the better the chance that a browser will understand it.

Character set reference.



Browser Support

Internet Explorer Firefox Opera Google Chrome Safari

The attribute is supported in all major browsers.


Example

<form action="demo_form_accept_charset.asp" accept-charset="ISO-8859-1">
First name: 
<input type="text" name="FirstName" value="Peter" />
<br />
Last name:
<input type="text" name="LastName" value="Griffin" />
<br />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>


Try-It-Yourself Demos

form accept-charset attribute example
Specify the accepted character sets for the form.


HTML form Tag Reference HTML <form> tag