HTML <form> accept-charset Attribute

The HTML <form> tag

Definition and Usage

accept-charset Attribute specifies the character encoding to be used when submitting the form.

Example

Form with accept-charset attribute:

<form action="/action_page.php" accept-charset="utf-8">
  <label for="fname">Name:</label>
  <input type="text" id="fname" name="fname"><br><br>
  <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

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Syntax

<form accept-charset="character_set">

Attribute Value

Value Description
character_set

A space-separated list of character encodings, used for one or more character encodings when submitting a form.

Common Values:

  • UTF-8 - Character encoding for Unicode
  • ISO-8859-1 - Character encoding for Latin letters

In theory, any character encoding can be used, but no browser can understand all encodings. The more widely a character encoding is used, the better the browser's support for it.

To view all available character encodings, please refer to our character set reference.

Browser Support

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The HTML <form> tag