A form with two submit buttons. The first submit button submits the form data with default character encoding, and the second submits the form data without character encoding:
The formenctype attribute specifies how form-data should be encoded before sending it to a server. This attribute overrides the form's enctype attribute.
The formenctype attribute is only used for buttons with type="submit".
The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the attribute.
Attribute | |||||
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formenctype | 9.0 | 10.0 | 4.0 | 5.1 | 10.6 |
The formenctype attribute is new in HTML5.
Value | Description |
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application/x-www-form-urlencoded | Default. All characters will be encoded before sent |
multipart/form-data | No characters are encoded (use this when you are using forms that have a file upload control) |
text/plain | Spaces are converted to "+" symbols, but no characters are encoded |