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Hello, I made a form for my web site.  I can't seen to figure out to accually make it work.  When I click submit I want the form to be emailed to an email address that I specify and after submitting be directed to a page that I specify.  If  anyone can help me out that would be great.
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use the form tag with these parameters:
<form action="mailto:info@yourdomain.com" method=post enctype="text/plain">

unfortunately this will not pass you to another page. You can use Javascript to accomplish this:
<form action="mailto:info@yourdomain.com" method=post enctype="text/plain" onsubmit="javascript:window.location.href='test.htm';">

This will change the URL after the submission to "test.htm"

I would not recommend to use this method. If you have a chance to use server side scripting like perl, PHP or ASP, I would suggest you use a script for sending the mail.

Marian
Well there are a number of ways for doing this.

The best way is by submitting the form to a script on the server that generates an email containing the submitted data, sends it to the appropriate email address and then displays a "thank you" page to the user.

The reason this is considered the best way is because you do not have to rely at all on the what kind of computer/setup the user has - everything is done from the webserver.

You can do it from the user's machine using "mailto" but it is VERY problematic and you cannot be guaranteed that you will receive the email.

Where are you hosting your web site? A free web space provider?

Don't worry, having such a script doesn't have to cost you anything - tell us a little bit more info and we can help you further.

:o)

Ant
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I have a site register threw Yahoo Domains
You mean Yahoo Geocities?

If so then they have just the thing you need!

http://us.geocities.yahoo.com/v/ao/for.html

:o)

Ant
No I mean Yahoo Domains, I paid for it.
Okay, but that doesn't give you web space - that's just the domain name. You need to have somewhere to place your web site - have you organised that yet?

:o)

Ant
Yes I do  the give me space.  The site is there and paid for because I registered a name.
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Hey, thanks for the help.  I really like doing this stuff I think I need to take some classes or something.
Glad I could help.

Thanks for the A!

:o)

Ant