Methods GET and POST in HTML forms - what's the difference? In HTML, one can specify two different submission methods for a form. The method is specified inside a FORM element, using the METHOD attribute. The difference between METHOD="GET" (the default) and METHOD="POST" is primarily defined in terms of form data The difference between METHOD="GET" and METHOD="POST" in a FORMelement in HTML is primarily defined in terms of form data encoding.The official recommendations say that "GET" should be used if and only ifthe form processing is idempotent,which typically means a pure query form.There are, however, problems related to long URLs and non-ASCII characterrepertoires which can make it n in Public bookmarkswith formhtmlinternetinternethtmlformby 2 users