when i try to submit a form from dreamweaver a blank page displays in IE with the heaading "about:blank" and the mailto does not happen.

mailto: forms require that an email application be specified in the browser settings and even then, a lot of security applications will prevent it from happening.  You need to learn how to send forms to a server side script that will process the email and send it.

ok i'm a begininer at this using norton internet securiity, outlook 2007, vista, IE7, dreamweaver 8, and don't know where to start

i'm going to start from scratch, create a simple one page site, with a simple mailto form having one fielld, and try to get that to run and output a simpmle outlook message.   thanks

Good luck.

I have attached a file showing all the screen prints.

1- I created a new site with only 1 web page, with 1 form, with 1 field and a submit button with a form action of mailto and a button action of submit form (see form properties on first attch page and see button properties on 2nd attch page).
2- See html code on attch page 3
3- Attch page 4 shows the web page runing under IE7, and attch page 5 shows the f orm with data typed in the text field
4- Page 6 shows warning from IE7
5- Attch page 6 shows the IE screen with title about:blank and tool bar with Blank Page
Doc1.doc

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Again, you can try using mailto: in a form all day and you may not get it to work.  Read more about the problems here:

http://webdesign.about.com/cs/forms/a/aamailtobroke.htm
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol3/form_no4.htm
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/forms/article.php/3479081

IE 6 and above no longer supports mailto: as a form action...

Not much experience with scripiting or understandinng exactly where the script should go but I'lll fiigure it out......thanks.