HTML woes: forms

[Frodo Baggins]

I'm trying to make a form, but it still has some bugs. I used frontpage 2001 and used the mailto:blah@hotmail.com action in the form properties.

Whenever I try testing this out, it says that I do not have an external mail program set up. I didn't install Outlook because iz don't use it, does anybody know how you can avoud this?

If someone fills out a form and he doesn't havea mail program (uses hotmail, or a free mail) does that mean he can't send a form? Any other ways around this?

[XWRed1]

The only way around it is for the form to post to a web page, and then that web page processes it and mails it to you on its own. That requires some extra abilities on the server, and programming efforts on your part, because that is cgi.

[Burning Phoenix]

Read up on or use php , asp or cgi scripts. Your server has to support these extensions. Their are lots of free scripts to use to do what you are attempting. If you are referrnig to the line in your html ( action="mailto:...... ) and it doesn't usually work on browsers.

[Frodo Baggins]

<form method="POST" name="Form" action="mailto:blah@blah.com" enctype="text/plain">

[XWRed1]

As we ascertained at the beginning of this thread, that only works if they've got a mail client setup that the web browser knows about.

[Frodo Baggins]

good news, I found out geocities (shudder) has a free form server I could use

[drunkmonkey]

signup with www.bravenet.com, they give web services like that and many other services for FREE.:D