What is the difference between GET and POST methods in an HTML form?

Both are values of the method attribute of a form.

Point	GET	POST
Data goes	In the URL	In the body of the request
Visible to user	Yes	No
Bookmark	Possible	Not possible
Size limit	Limited by URL length	Much bigger
Use for	Search, filters	Login, registration, file upload

<form action="search.php" method="get">...</form>
<form action="login.php" method="post">...</form>

Never send a password with GET, because it stays in the URL and the browser history. See HTML Forms.

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