send email having some fields on the form using only html andjavascript anybody knows

[shailendra deshpande]

right now i have only pain html page.and i want to send email through
it using javascript

plz. anybody tell me how to send email from plain html page using
javascript.


thanks in advance

Shailendra Deshpande

 

[Bart Friederichs]

right now i have only pain html page.and i want to send email through
it using javascript

plz. anybody tell me how to send email from plain html page using
javascript.

JavaScript cannot send e-mail. It's a client side scripting language.
Sending e-mails in webpages is usually done with a HTML form, that
triggers a server-side script (PHP/Perl/ASP) that does the e-mailing.

Another way is the HTML 'mailto' target in A tags. In that case, the
browser will fire up the locally installed e-mail client to do the
e-mailing.

Bart

 

[Evertjan.]

Bart Friederichs wrote on 16 jun 2008 in comp.lang.javascript:

JavaScript cannot send e-mail. It's a client side scripting language.

It is not, Bart,

I can send emails using serverside javascript.

And javascript can also be used in many other interpreters than only
browser or server.

I can even imagine a "stand alone" [cscript or wscript] javascript script
used as a email poster.

Sending e-mails in webpages is usually done with a HTML form, that
triggers a server-side script (PHP/Perl/ASP) that does the e-mailing.

Indeed,
where ASP is not a scripting language
but a platform for vbscript or javascript.

 

[VK]

Bart Friederichs wrote on 16 jun 2008 in comp.lang.javascript:


It is not, Bart,

I can send emails using serverside javascript.

But does it help anyhow to OP? From his question it is plenty clear
that he's asking about a client-side Javascript solution. Moreover a
person aware of server-side Javascript implementations and having one
of them manually installed - because no one hosting plan comes with
server-side Javascript - such person most definitely wouldn't need a
help to submit a plain HTML form. IMO.

To OP: normally even free hosting providers, not talking about paid
one, do provide some basic type of server-side form processing script.
You just need to find out in provider's help section what form action
attribute and additional fields to set in your form to use it.

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

JavaScript cannot send e-mail. It's a client side scripting language.

Sigh. [psf 10.1]

It is probably better known to be used client-side than server-side,
but that does not make it (or rather any ECMAScript implementation) a
client-side language. As a matter of fact, no programming language
is restricted to be used either client-side or server-side.

Sending e-mails in webpages is usually done with a HTML form, that
triggers a server-side script (PHP/Perl/ASP) that does the e-mailing.

It is the only viable way.

Another way is the HTML 'mailto' target in A tags.

`A' _elements_

In that case, the browser will fire up the locally installed e-mail
client to do the e-mailing.

If there is one, if the HTML user agent (of which Web browsers are only a
subset) is configured to use it, and if the e-mail client is configured for
accessing a mailbox. Which are the major problems with this; search the
archives.


PointedEars