--- title: MIME types date: 2020-04-03 17:28:43 tags: - media type categories: - Other intro: | This cheat sheet lists some common MIME types for the Web. You can look in the [IANA/MIME Media Types registry](http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html) which contains all registered MIME types. --- ## Getting Started {.cols-2} ### Introduction - The MIME type registry associates particular filename extensions and filename pattern - MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) type aka media type - MIME types are defined and standardized in IETF's RFC 6838 - Indicates the nature and format of a document, file, or assortment of bytes. - For file formats or format contents on the Internet {.marker-round} ### Multi-format of MIME types - [Markdown Table](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-markdown?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [Template](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-template?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [LaTeX Table](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-latex?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [CSV](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-csv?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [Excel](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-excel?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [JSON Array](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-json?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [HTML Table](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-html?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [Insert SQL](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-sql?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [YAML Sequence](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-yaml?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [XML](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-xml?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [ASCII](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-ascii?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [MediaWiki Table](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-mediawiki?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [AsciiDoc Table](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-asciidoc?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [Jira Table](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-jira?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [Textile Table](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-textile?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [reStructuredText](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-restructuredtext?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [PHP Array](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-php?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [Ruby Array](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-ruby?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [ASP Array](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-asp?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [ActionScript](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-actionscript?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [BBCode](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-bbcode?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [PDF](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-pdf?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) - [JPEG](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-jpeg?data=https://cheatsheets.zip/mime#TableGenerator) {.cols-4 .marker-none} ## Lists of MIME types {.cols-1} ### Common MIME (Media) types | Extension | Kind of document | MIME Type \(Content Type\) | | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | \.aac | AAC audio | audio/aac | | \.abw | AbiWord document | application/x\-abiword | | \.arc | Archive document \(multiple files embedded\) | application/x\-freearc | | \.avi | AVI: Audio Video Interleave | video/x\-msvideo | | \.azw | Amazon Kindle eBook format | application/vnd\.amazon\.ebook | | \.bin | Any kind of binary data | application/octet\-stream | | \.bmp | Windows OS/2 Bitmap Graphics | image/bmp | | \.bz | BZip archive | application/x\-bzip | | \.bz2 | BZip2 archive | application/x\-bzip2 | | \.csh | C\-Shell script | application/x\-csh | | \.css | Cascading Style Sheets \(CSS\) | text/css | | \.csv | Comma\-separated values \(CSV\) | text/csv | | \.doc | Microsoft Word | application/msword | | \.docx | Microsoft Word \(OpenXML\) | application/vnd\.openxmlformats\-officedocument\.wordprocessingml\.document | | \.eot | MS Embedded OpenType fonts | application/vnd\.ms\-fontobject | | \.epub | Electronic publication \(EPUB\) | application/epub\+zip | | \.gz | GZip Compressed Archive | application/gzip | | \.gif | Graphics Interchange Format \(GIF\) | image/gif | | \.htm \.html | HyperText Markup Language \(HTML\) | text/html | | \.ico | Icon format | image/vnd\.microsoft\.icon | | \.ics | iCalendar format | text/calendar | | \.jar | Java Archive \(JAR\) | application/java\-archive | | \.jpeg \.jpg | JPEG images | image/jpeg | | \.js | JavaScript | text/javascript | | \.json | JSON format | application/json | | \.jsonld | JSON\-LD format | application/ld\+json | | \.mid \.midi | Musical Instrument Digital Interface \(MIDI\) | audio/midi audio/x\-midi | | \.mjs | JavaScript module | text/javascript | | \.mp3 | MP3 audio | audio/mpeg | | \.mpeg | MPEG Video | video/mpeg | | \.mpkg | Apple Installer Package | application/vnd\.apple\.installer\+xml | | \.odp | OpenDocument presentation document | application/vnd\.oasis\.opendocument\.presentation | | \.ods | OpenDocument spreadsheet document | application/vnd\.oasis\.opendocument\.spreadsheet | | \.odt | OpenDocument text document | application/vnd\.oasis\.opendocument\.text | | \.oga | OGG audio | audio/ogg | | \.ogv | OGG video | video/ogg | | \.ogx | OGG | application/ogg | | \.opus | Opus audio | audio/opus | | \.otf | OpenType font | font/otf | | \.png | Portable Network Graphics | image/png | | \.pdf | Adobe Portable Document Format \(PDF\) | application/pdf | | \.php | Hypertext Preprocessor \(Personal Home Page\) | application/php | | \.ppt | Microsoft PowerPoint | application/vnd\.ms\-powerpoint | | \.pptx | Microsoft PowerPoint \(OpenXML\) | application/vnd\.openxmlformats\-officedocument\.presentationml\.presentation | | \.rar | RAR archive | application/vnd\.rar | | \.rtf | Rich Text Format \(RTF\) | application/rtf | | \.sh | Bourne shell script | application/x\-sh | | \.svg | Scalable Vector Graphics \(SVG\) | image/svg\+xml | | \.swf | Small web format \(SWF\) or Adobe Flash document | application/x\-shockwave\-flash | | \.tar | Tape Archive \(TAR\) | application/x\-tar | | \.tif \.tiff | Tagged Image File Format \(TIFF\) | image/tiff | | \.ts | MPEG transport stream | video/mp2t | | \.ttf | TrueType Font | font/ttf | | \.txt | Text, \(generally ASCII or ISO 8859\-n\) | text/plain | | \.vsd | Microsoft Visio | application/vnd\.visio | | \.wav | Waveform Audio Format | audio/wav | | \.weba | WEBM audio | audio/webm | | \.webm | WEBM video | video/webm | | \.webp | WEBP image | image/webp | | \.woff | Web Open Font Format \(WOFF\) | font/woff | | \.woff2 | Web Open Font Format \(WOFF\) | font/woff2 | | \.xhtml | XHTML | application/xhtml\+xml | | \.xls | Microsoft Excel | application/vnd\.ms\-excel | | \.xlsx | Microsoft Excel \(OpenXML\) | application/vnd\.openxmlformats\-officedocument\.spreadsheetml\.sheet | | \.xml | XML | application/xml if not readable from casual users \(RFC 3023, section 3\) text/xml if readable from casual users \(RFC 3023, section 3\) | | \.xul | XUL | application/vnd\.mozilla\.xul\+xml | | \.zip | ZIP archive | application/zip | | \.3gp | 3GPP audio/video container | video/3gpp audio/3gpp if it doesn't contain video | | \.3g2 | 3GPP2 audio/video container | video/3gpp2 audio/3gpp2 if it doesn't contain video | | \.7z | 7\-zip archive | application/x\-7z\-compressed | | \.markdown \.md | Markdown File | text/markdown | {.show-header}