HTML5: How to specify how form-data should be encoded before sending it to a server?

Last update on February 06 2024 11:30:58 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Solution :

HTML Code :

<!DOCTYPE html><!-- HTML5 document type declaration -->
<html><!-- Start of HTML document -->
<head><!-- Start of head section -->
<meta charset="utf-8"><!-- Declares document character encoding -->
<title>How to specify how form-data should be encoded before sending it to a server</title><!-- Sets the title of the webpage -->
</head><!-- End of head section -->
<body><!-- Start of body section -->
<form action="https://www.w3resource.com/html-css-exercise/basic/solution/button-formenctype.php" method="post"><!-- Start of form element with action and method attributes -->
name: <input type="text" name="name">   email: <input type="email" name="email"><button name="Submit" type="submit" formenctype="text/plain">Submit</button><!-- Input fields for name and email, with a submit button specifying formenctype="text/plain" to encode the form data as plain text before submitting -->
</form><!-- End of form element -->
<!-- note that though enctype attribute is not explicitly mentioned in the form tag,
which takes default value  "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", since formenctype="text/plain"
is explicitly specified in the button (of type="submit"), in the php associated PHP file
content/type of form data is shown as "text/plain"-->
</body><!-- End of body section -->
</html><!-- End of HTML document -->

Explanation:

This HTML document starts with a doctype declaration indicating it's an HTML5 document.
Inside the <html> tags, the document structure begins.
The <head> section contains metadata about the document, such as character encoding and the title.
The <body> section is where the visible content of the webpage resides.
Within the body section, there's a <form> element created with the action attribute set to the URL where the form data will be submitted and the method attribute set to "post".
Inside the form, there are input fields for entering name and email.
There's a <button> element within the form, serving as a submit button. It has the formenctype attribute set to "text/plain", specifying that the form data should be encoded as plain text before sending it to the server.
The HTML document ends with the closing </html> tag.

Live Demo :

See the Pen button-formenctype-answer by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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