Buttons working in forms

**Freeman** · 10-04-2005, 04:18 PM

Here is a form that i wrote. Im pretty sure that my scripting is correct but no guarentees. With the button for submitting I would like to have it mail directly to my E-mail address by clicking on the submit button and nothing else. I would also like to know what page they would get after they clicked the submit button. Thanks for the help. JF

<html>
<body>
<hr color="003466">
<form name="reg" action="mailto:E-mail" method="post" encrypt="text/plain">


<input type="hidden" name="email" value="E-mail">

<table with="100%">
<tr>
<td width="100">
First Name

</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="fname" id="fname" size="30">
Last Name
<input type="text" name="lname" id="lname" size="30">
</td>
</tr>

<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="100" valign="top">
<label for="comments">Questions or Comments</label>
</td>
<td valign="top">
<textarea name="comments" id="comments" rows="6" cols="50" wrap="hard">
</textarea>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td width="100">
E-mail Address
</td>

<td>

<input type="text name="e-mailaddress" id="e-mailaddress">

<tr>
<td valign="top" colspan="2" align="center">
<input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Reset">
</td>
</tr>

</table>
</form>
<hr color="003466">
</body>
</html>

**mwinter** · 10-04-2005, 09:08 PM

Originally Posted by Freeman

With the button for submitting I would like to have it mail directly to my E-mail address [...]

Use a server-side form processor to do this. The mailto scheme is not reliable. There are plenty of free services available, though your host may supply its own.

Hexadecimal colour values must be prefixed by a hash (#) character: #003466. A later horizontal rule (hr) also has this problem, too.

I doubt you need a name attribute, and there is no encrypt attribute anywhere in HTML. There is an enctype attribute for forms, but its use is rarely necessary (file uploads, usually).

A decent form processor will not require you to include your e-mail address in the markup. If you are told to include it, you should check that using a different address (perhaps a temporary Yahoo! account) will cause the submission to fail. There have been some badly written scripts over the years which could be hijacked for sending spam. No-one should use them, but it doesn't hurt to make sure.

Typo: width, not with.

</tr>

<table width="100%">

This is invalid markup: the table element here must either be separate, in which case you should close the previous one, or it must be completely contained within a cell.

You missed the closing quote for the type attribute value.

Hope that helps,
Mike

**Freeman** · 10-05-2005, 01:46 PM

Now that i have fixed the little mistakes how do I make it send to a cgi site. I have on set up now is it <form name="reg" action="http://www.website.com/cgi/mailer" method="post"> Is this the correct way to have it send to my cgi account? Thanks for all the help. JF

**mwinter** · 10-05-2005, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by Freeman

[...] how do I make it send to a cgi site. I have on set up now is it <form name="reg" action="http://www.website.com/cgi/mailer" method="post"> Is this the correct way to have it send to my cgi account?

It's entirely dependent upon the particular script; they're all different.

What service are you using? Do they not provide instructions?

Mike

**Freeman** · 10-06-2005, 02:38 PM

Well it turs out that after I posted that last message I found the instrucions on their site. Thanks for the help. JF

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