List of All Available Major MIME Types
Kushal Paudyal February 17th, 2010
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet standard that extends the format of e-mail to support:
- Text in character sets other than ASCII
- Non-text attachments
- Message bodies with multiple parts
- Header information in non-ASCII character sets
The following is a comprehensive list of all major MIME Types available as of now.
| MIME Type | MIME Description | MIME Category |
| text/css | Cascading Style Sheets | TEXT |
| text/csv | Comma-separated values | TEXT |
| text/html | HTML | TEXT |
| text/javascript (Obsolete) | JavaScript | TEXT |
| text/plain | Textual data | TEXT |
| text/xml | Extensible Markup Language | TEXT |
| video/mpeg | MPEG-1 video with multiplexed audio | VIDEO |
| video/mp4 | MP4 video | VIDEO |
| video/ogg | Ogg Theora or other video (with audio) | VIDEO |
| video/quicktime | QuickTime video | VIDEO |
| video/x-ms-wmv | Windows Media Video | VIDEO |
| application/x-pkcs12 | p12 files | PKCS |
| application/x-pkcs12 | pfx files | PKCS |
| application/x-pkcs7-certificates | p7b files | PKCS |
| application/x-pkcs7-certificates | spc files | PKCS |
| application/x-pkcs7-certreqresp | p7r files | PKCS |
| application/x-pkcs7-mime | p7c files | PKCS |
| application/x-pkcs7-mime | p7m files | PKCS |
| application/x-pkcs7-signature | p7s files | PKCS |
| multipart/mixed | MIME E-mail | MULTIPART |
| multipart/alternative | MIME E-mail | MULTIPART |
| multipart/related | MIME E-mail | MULTIPART |
| multipart/form-data | MIME Webform | MULTIPART |
| multipart/signed | Signed | MULTIPART |
| multipart/encrypted | Encrypted | MULTIPART |
| application/x-www-form-urlencoded | Form Encoded Data XD | APPLICATION |
| application/EDI-X12 | EDI X12 data | APPLICATION |
| application/EDIFACT | EDI EDIFACT data | APPLICATION |
| application/javascript | JavaScript | APPLICATION |
| application/octet-stream | Arbitrary binary data | APPLICATION |
| application/ogg | Ogg, a multimedia bitstream container format | APPLICATION |
| application/pdf | Portable Document Format | APPLICATION |
| application/xhtml+xml | XHTML | APPLICATION |
| application/xml-dtd | DTD files | APPLICATION |
| application/json | JavaScript Object Notation JSON | APPLICATION |
| application/zip | ZIP archive files | APPLICATION |
| image/gif | GIF image | IMAGE |
| image/jpeg | JPEG JFIF image | IMAGE |
| image/png | Portable Network Graphics | IMAGE |
| image/svg+xml | SVG vector image | IMAGE |
| image/tiff | Tag Image File Format | IMAGE |
| image/vnd.microsoft.icon | ICO image | IMAGE |
| application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text | OpenDocument Text | VENDOR-SPECIFIC |
| application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet | OpenDocument Spreadsheet | VENDOR-SPECIFIC |
| application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation | OpenDocument Presentation | VENDOR-SPECIFIC |
| application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics | OpenDocument Graphics | VENDOR-SPECIFIC |
| application/vnd.ms-excel | Microsoft Excel files | VENDOR-SPECIFIC |
| application/vnd.ms-powerpoint | Microsoft Powerpoint files | VENDOR-SPECIFIC |
| application/msword | Microsoft Word files | VENDOR-SPECIFIC |
| application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml | Mozilla XUL Files | VENDOR-SPECIFIC |
| audio/basic | Mulaw audio at 8KHz, 1 channel | AUDIO |
| audio/mpeg | MP3 or other MPEG audio | AUDIO |
| audio/ogg | Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Flac and other audio | AUDIO |
| audio/vorbis | Vorbis encoded audio | AUDIO |
| audio/x-ms-wma | Windows Media Audio | AUDIO |
| audio/vnd.rn-realaudio | RealAudio | AUDIO |
| audio/x-wav | WAV audio | AUDIO |
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Originally posted 2009-10-19 14:10:47.
