HTML Form - FORM element

Step three: Encode the form data set

A means to not lose data when sent to processing agent

A coding scheme set by a FORM element attribute

Context-type is determined depending on the data to be transmitted

Some context-type examples

"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" - default browser encoding

"multipart/form-data" - use when the INPUT element, type="file" is in the form

"text/plain" - use when the form data is being sent to a mail server