Charset Attribute Type

The Charset Attribute Type is a data type defined by XHTML Modularisation 1.1, declared in the DTD as XML 1.0 type CDATA.
Reference: *W3C - XHTML Modularisation 1.1 - Attribute Types

Specific Attributes with Type Charset

1. charset:
   This is declared on the elements: link, script, a

Common Attributes with Type Charset

There are no Common Attributes with type Charset.

Attribute Value for Type Charset

An RFC2045 Character Encoding, e.g. "utf-8", "US-ASCII" or "ISO-8859-1"

Ref: *RFC2045

The Charset Attribute Type is used in XHTML 1.1 exclusively for the charset attributes of the elements a, link and script.

For reference: *list of approved character sets published by the IANA (use the preferred MIME name of the character set in question).