send email. Pure html. No anchor tag

tbjoshi.2007 · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 1

Hi,

I am developing a web site for a friend on my computer at home using pure html. I am not an expert in html. I would like to use html form, submit button to email users' comments/feedback to my friend's email account

Is it possible to do this without anchor tag? I read everywhere it is not a good idea to use anchor tag wiht mailto option.

Thanks.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

tbj

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 3598 Location: Biloxi, MS

You could do a client-side "mailto:", but that depends on the user sending the email as they have to do the clicking of the Send button. Better to use a server-side form using your friend's email address where the form is filled out and the info is sent to them after the Submit button is clicked. Of course, your hosting site must allow use of SMTP.

Ron

mattb348 · Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 1

Hmmmm if you just use the "mailto:" option then you can indeed enter your friend's email address into the link, but it will still have to be sent through the client's email program (IE: outlook). Other than that, I beleive you would need to use some server side PHP code, which is fairly easy to setup, and almost all webhosts nowadays support this. Technically speaking I guess this is html code, considering that most webhosts/servers are setup to handle PHP without you even having to do anything special at all.

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