Purpose of Enctype attribute in Form tag

[Velhari]

Hi all,
Why we going for enctype “multipart/form-data” for uploading any file. Is there any reason please tell me... Please tell me about why we going for enctype attribute also

Thanks
Velmurugan.H

[tbb9216]

enctype tells the server recieving the form how to handle it. when you get into a lot of ajax you will start to really use this. also, when uploading files you have to set the enctype to multipart/form-data

basically, if you are doing something that requires enctype to be set or changed, you know what you are doing with it.

[ronverdonk]

Enctype (encoding type) specifies the media type of the underlying data.

Ronald :cool: