HTML5 <form> Tag

The HTML5 <form> tag is utilized such that a form that can be answered by the user may be incorporated within the document. The HTML5 <form> tag is also frequently used along with other form elements like the following:

<input>
<textarea>
<button>
<select>
<option>
<optgroup>
<fieldset>
<datalist>
<output>
<label>

Using the HTML5 <form> tag is slightly different compared to its functions on HTML4.01. There are some new attributes that are used in HTML5 but are not present in HTML4.01. Aside from that some attributes from HTML4.01 are already considered as obsolete.

Attributes for the HTML5 <form> tag are the following:

Attribute	Value	Description
accept	MIME_type	Not supported in HTML5
accept-charset	character_set	Identifies character encodings
action	URL	Identifies location where to send the form-data upon form submission
autocompleteNew	on off	Identifies autocomplete on or off
enctype	application/x-www-form-urlencoded multipart/form-data text/plain	Identifies how to encode data when submitting it to the server
method	get post	Identifies the HTTP method
name	text	Identifies the name of a form
novalidateNew	novalidate	Identifies that form validation
target	_blank _self _parent _top	Identifies place of the form response.