Sets or retrieves a comma-separated list of content types.
Syntax
| HTML | <INPUT ACCEPT
= sAccept... >
|
|---|
| Scripting | [ sAccept = ] INPUT.accept [ = v ] |
|---|
Possible Values
| sAccept | String that
specifies or receives comma-separated list of content types. |
The property is read/write.
The property has no default value.
Remarks
accept was introduced in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
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 MIME types, see MIME Media 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