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HTMLFormElement: encoding 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.encoding property is an alternative name for the enctype element on the DOM HTMLFormElement object.

Specifications

Specification
HTML>
# dom-fs-encoding>

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
encoding 1 12 1 ≤12.1 3 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLFormElement/encoding