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 .

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

Standards Information

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

Applies To

INPUT