HTML Standard attribute: enctype
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The HTML enctype attribute indicates how
form-data should be encoded when submitted to the server. It applies to <form> elements
and then only for method = post.
Valid attribute
values (for <form>)
include:
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Value
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Description
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application/x-www-form-urlencoded
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(Default). Input
control names and values are URL
encoded. Each name value pair is separated by a ‘&’ and the name is separated from the value by ‘=’ (as per a usual HTML query
string)
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multipart/form-data
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Used for submitting
forms that contain files, binary data and other non-ASCII data
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text/plain
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Obsolete. No encoding
is applied (is only retained for old browser compatibility)
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