The <form> element
A part of a web page which represents a form that can be filled in and submitted by the user.
Full list of attributes
All the usual HTML global attributes are available
accept-charset- A list of character encoding names that the browser can use to submit the form data in.
action- The URI that the form data should be submitted to.
autocomplete- Whether or not any
<input>elements in this form should do autocompletion by default. Each<input>element can override this individually. Valid values areon(the default) andoff. enctype- How form data should be encoded for transmission. Valid values are
application/x-www-form-urlencoded(the default),multipart/form-data, andtext/plain. method- How the form should be submitted. Valid values are
get(the default) andpost, which tell the browser to use one of those HTTP methods for the submission, anddialogwhich means the button should close its dialog box. name- A name to identify this form within the collection of forms it's a part of.
novalidate- If present then the browser will skip normal form validation before submission.
target- Where the form submission should open a resulting page. By default, it will open in the same place as the original form, but this could redirect the results to a frame, for example.