HTML DOM Form acceptCharset Property

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# Form acceptCharset Property

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

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

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>
document.write(document.getElementById("frm1").acceptCharset)
</script>
</body>
</html>

The output of the script above will be:

ISO-8859-1
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