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Jan 13.2003

Can anyone possibly help me with a problem I’ve been having making a basic html email form. It’s been quite a hair pulling experience and I’m still stuck.

When the submit button is clicked, a blank email edit edit window pops up. I’ve been using IE 6.0 and MSN 8.0 If you need to see the source material for youself, the address is

[url]http://www.geocities.com/newnhw/join_iframe.html[/url]

Any help would be great becuase I can’t figure it out for the life of me.

Thanks.

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@sinhartJan 13.2003 — [i]Originally posted by kcamburn [/i]

[B]When the submit button is clicked[/B][/QUOTE]

Forms shoould be handeled by a cgi script of some kind, I use perl. Just using the mailto function will just deliver a very confussing mess to the inbox. Every space and certain characters are represented by codes that mess the readability of the message up. I believe that a space is represented by %20 .

Check with your webspace provider and see if they have a formmail routine. Then instead of "action=mailto:" you would put the path to the cgi-bin, which they will provide, in for the action.

If your webspace provider doesn't provide formmail then you may consider looking on the web for a free cgi provider. There was one mentioned here last week but I don't have the time right now to look for it. Browse through the entries for the last week or so and you should be able to find it.
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@kcamburnauthorJan 13.2003 — Thanks. A couple hours after I made the original post I put in the url for a formhandler.com account and that took care of eveything.
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