ContentType Attribute Type

The ContentType 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 ContentType

1. codetype:
   This is declared on the element: object
2. enctype - default="application/x-www-form-urlencoded":
   This is declared on the element: form
3. type - #REQUIRED:
   This is declared on the elements: style, script
4. type:
   This is declared on the elements: link, a, object, param

Common Attributes with Type ContentType

There are no Common Attributes with type ContentType.

Attribute Value for Type ContentType

An RFC2045 MIME Media Type, e.g. "application/xhtml+xml", "application/xml", "text/xml", "text/html", "text/plain", "text/css", "text/javascript", "application/javascript", "application/octet-stream", "image/jpeg", "audio/mpeg", "multipart/form-data"

Ref: *RFC2045

The IANA provide a *list of registered MIME Media Types for reference. Note that some commonly used types (for example: application/java-archive) do not appear on the registered list and so are not strictly valid although they may still have widespread support.