The formenctype Attribute

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The Low Down

The formenctype attribute can force a form to submit the data in the specified encoding rather than the encoding specified in the form element when submitted as “post”.

• Valid as an attribute of elements that can submit a form, including <inputtype=submit> and <input type=image> and <button>.
• Possible values include
  • the default of “application/x-www-form-urlencoded” which encodes special chars in the URL to ASCII HEX values and spaces to ‘+’,
  • no encoding with multipart/form-data, and
  • text/plain which only converts spaces to +, and leaves other characters as is.
• Setting a value other than typical encoding types yields inconsistent results.