JS Email Form

[Bayleigh Anne]

I know this is probably a very easy question, but I literaly just started JavaScript, as in about 15 minutes ago. I have this code for an email form:

<div align="center">
<form action="#" method="post" onsubmit="return configureValidation(this)" onreset="confirm('All form information will be erased.')">
<table class="formtable">
<tr>
<td>Name: <span class="required">*</span></td>
<td><input type="text" name="firstname" value="" class="text"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email: <span class="required">*</span></td>
<td><input type="text" name="email" value="" class="text"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Your Website URL: <span class="required">*</span></td>
<td><input type="text" name="firstname" value="" class="text"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Comments:</td>
<td><textarea name="comments" value="" class="text" cols="20" rows="4"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send It" class="button"> <input type="reset" name="reset" value="Clear It"
class="button"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</div>
<p><div align="center">
</div><p>

Only problem is I can't figure out how to send it to my e-mail when they hit the submit button. If someone either wants to explain to me how to do this I would really appreciate it.

Bailee

[vinyl-junkie]

You cannot send email using javascript. What you can do instead is have the action button execute something like a Perl or PHP script.

You might want to have a look at this page, as it gives you some alternatives. Hope it helps.

[Paco_Blanco]

action="mailto:youremailaddress", method="post" and encType="text/plain" in your opening form tag(?).

[vinyl-junkie]

action="mailto:youremailaddress", method="post" and encType="text/plain" in your opening form tag(?).

No.

When a "mailto" link is visible in your source code, that's how spammers harvest your email address. You want something like this instead:

<form action="yourphpscript.php" method="post">

where yourphpscript.php is the script that processes your contact form. That also conceals your email address from the spambots.

[Paco_Blanco]

Good to know. Thanks.