Create a form for viewers to submit by email

Question

I have a registration form that viewers can register for a
class, how do I make it so they can select or input the information
and then hit the submit button and it will e-mail me the form? Here
is the link...
http://www.relevanceonline.org/AlphaRegistration.html

Answer 1

Okay, so you are sending, or trying to send, an email this way:
action="mailto:[email protected]"
As a few others explained, in general this is not a reliable way to go,  however, since you are on an intranet where you may
know for certain that this will be successful for all users, this should be okay.
Just fyi, though, instead of applying a javascript to a form input element to open the Thank You page in a new browser window,
you could just as easily have added this to the form element itself in an onsubmit event:
<form onsubmit="openBrowserWindow(etc)" action="etc">
It still will fire even when mailto happens to fail, which hopefully it will never do on yoru intranet, but just to let you know
this is a good way to keep all the scripting visible in one element instead of putting part of it farther down in the form.
Easier for maintenance later.  This is also where you put in a Form Validation script btw, if you want to be sure the user
has filled in all the needed fields:
<form onsubmit="return FormValidatorScript()" action="etc">
where FormValidatorScript() returns FALSE  if a required field is missing, which will prevent the "action" from firing until the user fixes the error.
Hope that helps for your future development needs.
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