MIME Media Types in HTML

MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension. It is media type which was initially used to include information other than plain content in an email . It denotes the underlying things

The way of combing different parts of messages like text and attachments into a message

How the part of message is represented

How various things are encoded for transmission?

Nowadays it is deployed by web servers as a way to tell web browsers to handle the kind of messages correctly

It is allotted and listed officially by IANA – Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

While MIME type specification for a content type, denote the set of character for the used text

If the character set is not represented, the US-ASCII is the default

e.g.

content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

It has 2 parts

Main and sub type

To separate main type from sub forward slash is introduced

e.g

text/html for HTML

The main types include

text

audio

image

video

multipart

model

message and

application

The main type holds type of plain text files like

Plain text files - text/plain

HTML files - text/html

Text file with rich text formatting – text/rtf