diff --git a/Meta/Lagom/Tools/CodeGenerators/LibWeb/WrapperGenerator/IDLGenerators.cpp b/Meta/Lagom/Tools/CodeGenerators/LibWeb/WrapperGenerator/IDLGenerators.cpp
index d8b6967579..994f9a0622 100644
--- a/Meta/Lagom/Tools/CodeGenerators/LibWeb/WrapperGenerator/IDLGenerators.cpp
+++ b/Meta/Lagom/Tools/CodeGenerators/LibWeb/WrapperGenerator/IDLGenerators.cpp
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ static bool is_wrappable_type(Type const& type)
         return true;
     if (type.name == "WebGLRenderingContext")
         return true;
+    if (type.name == "URLSearchParams")
+        return true;
     return false;
 }
 
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/XHR/XMLHttpRequest.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/XHR/XMLHttpRequest.cpp
index 06a69c5666..62dbc8d64b 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/XHR/XMLHttpRequest.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/XHR/XMLHttpRequest.cpp
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
  * Copyright (c) 2021, Linus Groh <linusg@serenityos.org>
  * Copyright (c) 2022, Luke Wilde <lukew@serenityos.org>
  * Copyright (c) 2022, Ali Mohammad Pur <mpfard@serenityos.org>
+ * Copyright (c) 2022, Kenneth Myhra <kennethmyhra@serenityos.org>
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
  */
@@ -426,6 +427,21 @@ static bool is_header_value(String const& header_value)
     return true;
 }
 
+static XMLHttpRequest::BodyWithType safely_extract_body(XMLHttpRequestBodyInit& body)
+{
+    if (body.has<NonnullRefPtr<URL::URLSearchParams>>()) {
+        return {
+            body.get<NonnullRefPtr<URL::URLSearchParams>>()->to_string().to_byte_buffer(),
+            "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8"
+        };
+    }
+    VERIFY(body.has<String>());
+    return {
+        body.get<String>().to_byte_buffer(),
+        "text/plain;charset=UTF-8"
+    };
+}
+
 // https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-xmlhttprequest-setrequestheader
 DOM::ExceptionOr<void> XMLHttpRequest::set_request_header(String const& name, String const& value)
 {
@@ -547,7 +563,7 @@ DOM::ExceptionOr<void> XMLHttpRequest::open(String const& method, String const&
 }
 
 // https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-xmlhttprequest-send
-DOM::ExceptionOr<void> XMLHttpRequest::send(String body)
+DOM::ExceptionOr<void> XMLHttpRequest::send(Optional<XMLHttpRequestBodyInit> body)
 {
     if (m_ready_state != ReadyState::Opened)
         return DOM::InvalidStateError::create("XHR readyState is not OPENED");
@@ -559,6 +575,8 @@ DOM::ExceptionOr<void> XMLHttpRequest::send(String body)
     if (m_method.is_one_of("GET"sv, "HEAD"sv))
         body = {};
 
+    auto body_with_type = body.has_value() ? safely_extract_body(body.value()) : XMLHttpRequest::BodyWithType {};
+
     AK::URL request_url = m_window->associated_document().parse_url(m_url.to_string());
     dbgln("XHR send from {} to {}", m_window->associated_document().url(), request_url);
 
@@ -578,8 +596,11 @@ DOM::ExceptionOr<void> XMLHttpRequest::send(String body)
 
     auto request = LoadRequest::create_for_url_on_page(request_url, m_window->page());
     request.set_method(m_method);
-    if (!body.is_null())
-        request.set_body(body.to_byte_buffer());
+    if (!body_with_type.body.is_empty()) {
+        request.set_body(body_with_type.body);
+        if (!body_with_type.type.is_empty())
+            request.set_header("Content-Type", body_with_type.type);
+    }
     for (auto& it : m_request_headers)
         request.set_header(it.key, it.value);
 
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/XHR/XMLHttpRequest.h b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/XHR/XMLHttpRequest.h
index 678e83ce8a..78197897c1 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/XHR/XMLHttpRequest.h
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/XHR/XMLHttpRequest.h
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2020-2021, Andreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org>
+ * Copyright (c) 2022, Kenneth Myhra <kennethmyhra@serenityos.org>
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
  */
@@ -15,12 +16,15 @@
 #include <LibWeb/DOM/EventTarget.h>
 #include <LibWeb/DOM/ExceptionOr.h>
 #include <LibWeb/MimeSniff/MimeType.h>
+#include <LibWeb/URL/URLSearchParams.h>
 #include <LibWeb/XHR/XMLHttpRequestEventTarget.h>
 
 namespace Web::XHR {
 
 static constexpr Array<u8, 4> http_whitespace_bytes = { '\t', '\n', '\r', ' ' };
 
+using XMLHttpRequestBodyInit = Variant<NonnullRefPtr<URL::URLSearchParams>, String>;
+
 class XMLHttpRequest final
     : public RefCounted<XMLHttpRequest>
     , public Weakable<XMLHttpRequest>
@@ -34,6 +38,11 @@ public:
         Done = 4,
     };
 
+    struct BodyWithType {
+        ByteBuffer body;
+        String type;
+    };
+
     using WrapperType = Bindings::XMLHttpRequestWrapper;
 
     static NonnullRefPtr<XMLHttpRequest> create(HTML::Window& window)
@@ -58,7 +67,7 @@ public:
 
     DOM::ExceptionOr<void> open(String const& method, String const& url);
     DOM::ExceptionOr<void> open(String const& method, String const& url, bool async, String const& username = {}, String const& password = {});
-    DOM::ExceptionOr<void> send(String body);
+    DOM::ExceptionOr<void> send(Optional<XMLHttpRequestBodyInit> body);
 
     DOM::ExceptionOr<void> set_request_header(String const& header, String const& value);
     void set_response_type(Bindings::XMLHttpRequestResponseType type) { m_response_type = type; }
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/XHR/XMLHttpRequest.idl b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/XHR/XMLHttpRequest.idl
index 56d1c9d1f7..c712fd9aa2 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/XHR/XMLHttpRequest.idl
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/XHR/XMLHttpRequest.idl
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #import <XHR/XMLHttpRequestEventTarget.idl>
 #import <DOM/EventHandler.idl>
+#import <URL/URLSearchParams.idl>
+
+typedef (URLSearchParams or USVString) XMLHttpRequestBodyInit;
 
 enum XMLHttpRequestResponseType {
   "",
@@ -30,7 +33,7 @@ interface XMLHttpRequest : XMLHttpRequestEventTarget {
     undefined open(DOMString method, DOMString url);
     undefined open(ByteString method, USVString url, boolean async, optional USVString? username = {}, optional USVString? password = {});
     undefined setRequestHeader(DOMString name, DOMString value);
-    undefined send(optional USVString body = {});
+    undefined send(optional XMLHttpRequestBodyInit? body = null);
 
     ByteString? getResponseHeader(ByteString name);
     ByteString getAllResponseHeaders();