ACCEPT Attribute | accept Property

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Sets or retrieves a comma-separated list of content types.

Syntax

HTML<INPUT ACCEPT = sAccept... >
ScriptingINPUT.accept(v) [ = sAccept ]

Possible Values

sAcceptString that specifies or receives comma-separated list of content types.

The property is read/write. The property has no default value.

Remarks

The information from the list can be used to filter out nonconforming files when prompting a user to select files to be sent to the server using the <INPUT> element with type="file".

Examples of content types include "text/html", "image/png", "image/gif", "video/mpeg", "audio/basic", "text/tcl", "text/javascript", and "text/vbscript". For the current list of registered Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) types, see MIME types Non-Microsoft link.

There is no functionality implemented for this property unless defined by the author.

Standards Information

This property is defined in HTML 4.0 Non-Microsoft link and is defined in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Non-Microsoft link.

Applies To

INPUT