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jsyarsin
post Nov 7 2009, 06:31 PM
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I am trying to create a form that will automatically e-mail me when it is filled out. Here is the form code. What is wrong???!!

<form action="" onSubmit="sendMail()" method="POST" enctype="plain/text" name="JeremyForm" id="form" target="_blank" >
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="form">
<tr>
<td style="width:198px; height:128px"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td style="width:198px; height:27px"><input name="input" id="name" type="text" value="your name:"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width:198px; height:27px"><input name="input" type="text" value="your company:"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width:198px; height:27px"><input name="input" type="text" value="telephone:"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width:198px; height:27px"><input name="input" type="text" value="e-mail"></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
<td style="width:202px; height:128px"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td style="width:202px; height:109px"><textarea name="textarea" id="textarea" cols="0" rows="0">message:</textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width:202px; height:19px"><br style="line-height:1px">
<img src="images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="116" height="1"><strong><a href="#" onClick="document.getElementById('form').reset()">reset</a></strong><img src="images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="15" height="1"><strong><a href="submit.html"></a><a href="submit.html" onClick=action=sendto:info@ravenouschocolate.com>send</a></strong></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
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Brian Chandler
post Nov 7 2009, 10:51 PM
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<a href="submit.html" onClick=action=sendto:info@ravenouschocolate.com>send</a>


Where did you get this bit from? Did you make it up?

Remember that html is not a natural language (sorry, the police will be on me if I say it's a "programming language", even though that would be a lot truer than thinking it's a natural language); you are not writing hints to help a human guess what you want. You need to read the manual (start with the FAQ) and learn how to build a syntactically correct, and then meaningful html document. The above is just a mess.
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post Nov 7 2009, 11:13 PM
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thanks for the super advice. yes, i made it following a variety of sources.
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See if this makes it clearer.
http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/forms.html#mailto-form
You may also need this.
http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/

Basically you have two options. Use a script on the server, in which case the URL to the script should be the value of the action attribute in the FORM tag. Or use mailto (action="mailto:you@example.com"), but that's a bad option for many reasons. If you can't run scripts where you are hosted, you may consider a remotely hosted solution. It will work better than mailto.
http://www.hotscripts.com/category/remotel...orm-processors/


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