HTML | DOM Form enctype Property

Last Updated : 12 Feb, 2019

The Form enctype property in HTML DOM is used to set or return the value of the enctype attribute in a form. This attribute specifies the data that will be present in the form should be encoded when submitting to the server. This type of attribute can be used only if method = “POST”.

Syntax:

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It is used to return the enctype property.
```
formObject.enctype
```

It is used to set the enctype property.

formObject.enctype = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form-data, text/plain"

Property Values:

application/x-www-form-urlencoded: It is the default value. It encodes all the characters before sent to the server. It converts spaces into + symbols and special character into its hex value.
multipart/form-data: This value does not encode any character.
text/plain: This value convert spaces into + symbols but special characters are not converted.

Return Value It returns a string value which represent the encoded type of the form data when sending it to the server.

Example 1: This example use getElementById() method to return the enctype property.

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <title>
            HTML DOM Form enctype Property
        </title> 
    </head> 
      
    <body> 
      
        <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
          
        <h2>DOM Form enctype Property</h2> 
          
        <form action="#" id="GFG" method="post"
                    enctype="multipart/form-data"> 
                      
            First name: <input type="text" name="fname">
              
            <br><br> 
              
            Last name: <input type="text" name="lname">
              
            <br><br> 
              
            Address: <input type="text" name="Address">
              
            <br><br> 
              
            <input type="submit" value="Submit"> 
        </form>
          
        <p>
            Click on Button to return enctype
            attribute value
        </p>
          
        <button onclick = "myGeeks()">
            Click Here!
        </button>
          
        <p id = "sudo"></p>
          
        <!-- Script to return enctype property value -->
        <script>
            function myGeeks() {
                var x = document.getElementById("GFG").enctype;
                document.getElementById("sudo").innerHTML = x;
            }
        </script>
    </body> 
</html>                            

Output:
Before Click on the Button:

After Click on the Button:

Example 2: This example set the enctype property.

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <title>
            HTML DOM Form enctype Property
        </title> 
    </head> 
      
    <body> 
      
        <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
          
        <h2>DOM Form enctype Property</h2> 
          
        <form action="#" id="GFG" method="post" 
                    enctype="multipart/form-data"> 
                      
            First name: <input type="text" name="fname">
              
            <br><br> 
              
            Last name: <input type="text" name="lname">
              
            <br><br> 
              
            Address: <input type="text" name="Address">
              
            <br><br> 
              
            <input type="submit" value="Submit"> 
        </form>
          
        <p>
            Click on Button to return the
            enctype attribute value
        </p>
          
        <button onclick="myGeeks()">
            Click Here!
        </button>
          
        <p id="sudo"></p>
          
        <!-- Script to set enctype attribute value -->
        <script>
            function myGeeks() {
                var x = document.getElementById("GFG").enctype 
                        = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
                document.getElementById("sudo").innerHTML
                        = "The value of the enctype attribute"
                        + " was changed to: " + x;
            }
        </script>
    </body> 
</html>                    