HTML5 PUT/DELETE methods not working in Chrome?

Question

I am trying to figure out why the put/delete methods, in an HTML5 enabled site, is not working with Chrome. From what i\'ve searched for, it sounds like it has been working

Answer 1

There is no “HTML5”, as a monolithic standard.

Some of it's the same as HTML4. Some of it's ratifying technically-non-standard features that every browser implements and everyone's used for years. Some of it's new extensions that the browser vendors mostly agree on and are in various stages of implementation. Like, for example, autofocus.

But then some of it is spottily-implemented stuff that is likely to change before it's standardised, and some of it's random bonus features that some random people at WHATWG thought would be nice, but which shows no sign of support from the browser authors.

There is less of this latter category than there used to be (early WHATWG drafts were almost as full of architect-astronomy badness as XHTML 2.0), but there's still some, and currently, the extended form submission types (PUT/DELETE methods and some of the non-HTTP actions) are in that category. Every browser currently ignores method="put", falling back to the default attr value get instead.

Maybe one day browsers will implement this. Or maybe it'll be excised from the spec. HTML5 is still a long way from finished. For now, just use POST like everyone else. It's not quite pure RESTfulness, but then that doesn't really get you anything special.

Use HTML or XHTML syntaxes, but don't mix them. autofocus="autofocus" for XHTML5, or for HTML5 lose the self-closing /.

Best avoid naming a button that, to avoid clashes with the form.submit() method. You don't need name on a submit button unless you need to check for a click on one particular button, anyway. (And you don't need to add ids to all your fields either. Unless you need an id for or script targeting, you can leave them out.)