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Form acceptCharset Property

Form Object Reference Form Object

Definition and Usage

The acceptCharset property sets or returns the value of the accept-charset attribute in a form element.

The accept-charset attribute specifies the character-sets the server can handle for form-data.

Syntax

formObject.acceptCharset=value

The acceptCharset property can have the following value:

Value Description
character-set One or more character-sets that the server can handle. To specify more than one character set, separate the sets with a comma.

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.



Browser Support

Internet Explorer Firefox Opera Google Chrome Safari

The acceptCharset property is supported in all major browsers.


Tips and Notes

Note: The accept-charset attribute does not work properly in Internet Explorer. If accept-charset="ISO-8859-1", IE will send data encoded as "Windows-1252".


Example

Example

Return the value of the accept-charset attribute in a form:

<html>
<body>

<form id="frm1" accept-charset="ISO-8859-1">
First name: <input type="text" name="fname" value="Donald" /><br />
Last name: <input type="text" name="lname" value="Duck" /><br />
</form>

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write(document.getElementById("frm1").acceptCharset)
</script>

</body>
</html>

The output of the script above will be:

ISO-8859-1

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Form Object Reference Form Object
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