Using PUT method in HTML form

Can I use a PUT method in an HTML form to send data from the form to a server?

According to the HTML standard, you can not. The only valid values for the method attribute are get and post, corresponding to the GET and POST HTTP methods. <form method="put"> is invalid HTML and will be treated like <form>, i.e. send a GET request.

Instead, many frameworks simply use a POST parameter to tunnel the HTTP method:

<form method="post" ...>
  <input type="hidden" name="_method" value="put" />
...

Of course, this requires server-side unwrapping.

XHTML 1.x forms only support GET and POST. GET and POST are the only allowed values for the "method" attribute.