HTML5: How to specify the character encoding that are to be used for the form submission?

Last update on February 08 2024 12:47:55 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html><!-- Opening tag for declaring the document type -->
<html><!-- Opening tag for the root element of the HTML document -->
<head><!-- Opening tag for the document's header section -->
<meta charset="utf-8"><!-- Metadata tag specifying the character encoding of the document -->
<title>HTML form accept charset example</title><!-- Title of the HTML document -->
</head><!-- Closing tag for the document's header section -->
<body><!-- Opening tag for the document's body section -->
<form accept-charset="ISO-8859-1" <!-- Opening tag for the form element with the accept-charset attribute specifying the character encoding -->
action="https://www.w3resource.com/html-css-exercise/basic/solution/form-accept-charset-answer-demo.php" method="post"><!-- Attributes specifying the action URL and method for the form -->
  Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br><!-- Input field for entering a name -->
  Address: <input type="text" name="add"><br><!-- Input field for entering an address -->
<input type="submit" value="Submit"><!-- Submit button for submitting the form -->
</form><!-- Closing tag for the form element -->
</body><!-- Closing tag for the document's body section -->
</html><!-- Closing tag for the root element of the HTML document -->

Explanation:

This HTML code demonstrates a form with an attribute accept-charset.
The accept-charset attribute specifies the character encodings that are accepted by the server when the form is submitted.
In this case, accept-charset is set to "ISO-8859-1", which is a character encoding for Western European languages.
The form's action attribute specifies the URL to which the form data will be submitted.
The method attribute specifies the HTTP method used to submit the form, in this case, POST.
Inside the form element, there are input fields for entering name and address information.
Each input field has a name attribute corresponding to the data it represents.
There is a submit button for submitting the form.

Live Demo:

See the Pen form-accept-charset-answer by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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