HTMLFormElement: enctype property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The HTMLFormElement.enctype property is the MIME type of content that is used to submit the form to the server. Possible values are:

  • application/x-www-form-urlencoded: The initial default type.
  • multipart/form-data: The type that allows file <input> element(s) to upload file data.
  • text/plain: Ambiguous format, human-readable content not reliably interpretable by computer.

This value can be overridden by a formenctype attribute on a <button> or <input> element.

Value

A string.

Examples

js
form.enctype = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-fs-enctype

Browser compatibility

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