HTMLFormElement: action property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The HTMLFormElement.action property represents the action of the <form> element.

The action of a form is the program that is executed on the server when the form is submitted. This property can be retrieved or set.

Value

A string.

Examples

js
form.action = "/cgi-bin/publish";

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-fs-action

Browser compatibility