HTML and CSS Reference
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action="
URL
URL
"
Required
. Specifies the URL of the application that will process the form. The default is
the current URL.
autocomplete="on|off"
Not in HTML 4.01
. Allows the user agent (browser) to fill in a field automatically (
on
)
or requires the user to enter the information every time (
off
).
enctype="
content type
content type
"
Specifies how the values for the form controls are encoded when they are submitted to the
server when the method is
post
. The default is the Internet Media Type (
application/
x-www-form-urlencoded
). The value
multipart/form-data
should be used in combin-
ation with the
file
input element. The new
text/plain
value sets the MIME type to text/
plain.
method="GET|POST"
Specifies which HTTP method will be used to submit the form data. With
get
(the de-
fault), the information is appended to and sent along with the URL itself.
name="
text
text
"
Assigns a name to the form.
novalidate
(
novalidate="novalidate"
in XHTML)
Not in HTML 4.01
. Indicates that the form is not to be validated during submission.
target="
name
name
"
Specifies a target for the results of the form submission to be loaded so that results of a
form can be displayed in another window or
iframe
. The special target values
_bottom
,
_top
,
_parent
, and
_self
may be used.
