HTML <form> accept-charset Attribute

Example

A form with an accept-charset attribute:

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

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Definition and Usage

The accept-charset attribute specifies the character encodings that are to be used for the form submission.

Browser Support

Attribute
accept-charset	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Syntax

Attribute Values

Value	Description
character_set	A space-separated list of one or more character encodings that are to be used for the form submission. Common values: UTF-8 - Character encoding for Unicode ISO-8859-1 - Character encoding for the Latin alphabet In theory, any character encoding can be used, but no browser understands all of them. The more widely a character encoding is used, the better the chance that a browser will understand it. To view all available character encodings, go to our Character sets reference.

Value

Description

character_set

A space-separated list of one or more character encodings that are to be used for the form submission.

Common values:

UTF-8 - Character encoding for Unicode
ISO-8859-1 - Character encoding for the Latin alphabet

In theory, any character encoding can be used, but no browser understands all of them. The more widely a character encoding is used, the better the chance that a browser will understand it.

To view all available character encodings, go to our Character sets reference.

❮ HTML <form> tag