HTML <form> accept-charset Attribute

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The accept-charset attribute on a form tag sets the character encoding for the form data during submission.

If not specified, the default is the same as the page character encoding, which is usually UTF-8.

Example

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An accept-charset attribute on a form element.
The form uses UTF-8 character encoding.

<form action="/tutorial/action.html" accept-charset="utf-8">
  <input type="text" name="firstname" placeholder="First name">
  <input type="text" name="lastname" placeholder="Last name">

  <button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>

Using accept-charset

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The accept-charset attribute sets the character encoding for form submission.

This only applies to the <form> that has this attribute, and not page-wide.

If not specified, the default is the same as the page character encoding, which is usually UTF-8.

Characters sets are used to encode the form-data submitted to the server.

Syntax

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<form accept-charset="character-set">

Values

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Value	Description
character-set	Space-separated list of character encodings. Common values are UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1. The default value is 'UNKNOWN'. For HTML5 pages this means that UTF-8 will be used.