IE automatically adding enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded". Why?

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I’m building a simple form with Javascript and I set the enctype to “multipart/form-data”.

var form = document.createElement('form');
form.setAttribute('method', 'post');
form.setAttribute('enctype', 'multipart/form-data');
form.setAttribute('action', 'index.aspx');
form.setAttribute('onsubmit', 'return verifyForm()');

The form in Chrome/Firefox/Safari:

<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="index.aspx" onsubmit="return verifyForm()">

The form in IE:

<form onsubmit="return verifyForm()" encType="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method=post action=index.aspx enctype="multipart/form-data">

Why would this happen?

I looked into this because for some reason my files are not being sent to index.aspx when using IE and I think this could probably be causing that issue.

Thanks!

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Found out why.

Apparently in IE, you have to set the “encoding” of the form rather than the “enctype”.

Thanks for making things more difficult, Microsoft.

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