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Sep 24.2007

Hi, I am working on an offline HTML form that is supposed to mail certain information using the mailto action… ugly, I know, but it is the only option at this point.

I have a field that will be manually filled with the recipient’s email address. Since I am a total newbie, could someone enlighten me and tell me how can I get the contents of the form emailed to this address?

Right now the form tag is like this:
<form action=”mailto:[email protected]” method=”POST” onSubmit=”return CheckForm(this)” ENCTYPE=”text/plain”>

The email input field is “b_email”

Any help will be totally appreciated!

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@JMRKERSep 24.2007 — Do a search of this forum with 'email body' to get the following:

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=158733

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=155379

plus lots of others.
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@criftauthorSep 24.2007 — Do a search of this forum with 'email body' to get the following:

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=158733

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=155379

plus lots of others.[/QUOTE]

Maybe I wasn't too clear... sorry but my english is not so good.

I have a form and one of the text input fields is the recipient email (name='b_email').

It cannot be hard-coded in the mailto: action.

mailto action must be populated with the recipient taken from the b_email field of the HTML form.
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@felgallSep 24.2007 — <form action="mailto:...

will not work in modern web browsers. They require a script in the action field and only allow mailto: in links.
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@slaughtersSep 24.2007 — <form action="mailto:...

will not work in modern web browsers....[/QUOTE]

Specifically which ? The Holy Quadinity ? (IE7/Firefox/Opera/Safari)
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@criftauthorSep 24.2007 — It works when hardcoded mailto: address is used with IE7

But still... how do I populate the mailto: address with the result of the "b_mail" form field? ?
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@JMRKERSep 24.2007 — Are you trying to accomplish the same thing as this person?

See: http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=161527
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@criftauthorSep 24.2007 — Hmm... almost, I think.

The page that contains the form also contains a function that displays checkout cart contents.

Below this, we have an input textfield for "Name" and then another one for "Email recipient"

First input field is "b_name" and second is "b_email"

Right now, the form tag is like this and it works:

<form action="mailto:[email protected]" method="POST" onSubmit="return CheckForm(this)" ENCTYPE="text/plain">

How should it be if I wanted the [email][email protected][/email] replaced with "b_mail"?

I am quite JS ignorant, keep in mind... tia!
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@criftauthorSep 25.2007 — Anyone? Is my question too stupid or is it a real challenge?
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