Can anyone help me with a form problem?

[Sue Henderson]

I have a web page with a form created on it using Dreameraver. Dreamweaver
by default seems to want to do exotic things to it. All I want, is for the
submit button to have a link to an email address. In other words, when the
form is filled out and the submit button is clicked the contents will be
emailed to a specific address. Can anyone assist?

Regards and thanks in advance,

Sue

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

I have a web page with a form created on it using Dreameraver.
Dreamweaver by default seems to want to do exotic things to it.

OK, stop using a program that you cannot control.

All I want, is for the submit button to have a link to an email
address.

Stop wanting that. Just insert your E-mail address onto the page,
visibly. You may make it a link if you like.

In other words, when the form is filled out and the submit
button is clicked the contents will be emailed to a specific
address.

Well, that's quite different from what you just said.

You need to study and understand the basics of how forms work on the
Web, and then you need to find a suitable form handler. For some
pointers, check http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

I have a web page with a form created on it using Dreameraver. Dreamweaver
by default seems to want to do exotic things to it. All I want, is for the
submit button to have a link to an email address. In other words, when the
form is filled out and the submit button is clicked the contents will be
emailed to a specific address. Can anyone assist?

Surely DW's bells & whistles are optional. I suspect you're trying to
submit the form using mailto:, which won't work. Got to
http://cgi.resourceindex.com/ or http://php.resourceindex.com/ to find a
script that will handle it properly. If you can't install those go to
http://www.response-o-matic.com/ and borrow theirs.

 

[Ben Dover - Mental Patient 0057]

<form action="mailto:[email protected]">
<input type="text">
<input type="submit">
</form>
how about that?

 

[Adrienne]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Ben Dover - Mental Patient 0057

Please don't top post...

<form action="mailto:[email protected]">
<input type="text">
<input type="submit"> </form> how about that?

That's not going to work for a large group of users, specifically users who
do not have access to an email client, web mail users, users at a library
or Internet cafe, users not using their own system, etc.