HTML | <form> accept-charset Attribute

The HTML <form> accept-charset Attribute is used to define the character encoding and is used for form submission. The default value of the accept-charset attribute is “UNKNOWN” string which indicates the encoding equals to the encoding of the document containing the <form> element.

Syntax:

<form accept-charset = "character_set">

Attribute Value: The attribute value contains the list separated value of one or more encoding attributes. The common value of encoding attributes is UTF-8, ISO-8859-1. This attribute always associated with the form element only.

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title> 
      HTML formm accept-charset attribute 
  </title> 
    <style> 
        h1 { 
            color: green; 
        } 
          
        body { 
            text-align: center; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
    <h2> 
      HTML <form> accept-charset Attribute 
  </h2> 
    
    <form action="#" accept-charset="UTF-8"> 
        First name: 
        <input type="text" name="fname"> 
        <br> Last name: 
        <input type="text" name="lname"> 
        <br> 
        <input type="submit" value="Submit"> 
    </form> 
</body> 
  
</html> 

Output:

Supported Browsers: The browsers supported by HTML <form> accept-charset Attribute are listed below:

Google Chrome
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Apple Safari
Opera

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