I have mailto in my HTML and it seems to be working as it launches my default mail app (Mail on Mac). The problem is it is not sending the text from the text area. Below is my code.
<form target="_top" action="mailto:briankaty1#blueyonder.co.uk" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
<label>name</label>
<input type="text"><br>
<label>Your email</label>
<input type="email"><br>
<label>Your message</label>
<textarea name="" id="" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" name="">
</form>
Any help would be appreciated.
Only form controls with a name can be successful controls. None of yours have a name.
Asides
You should learn how to use the label element properly. Without a for attribute or a form control inside it, a label is useless.
mailto: forms are highly unreliable. Use an HTTP(S) URL and a server-side form handler instead.
Just mocked this up for testing because I didn't believe this was actually possible, and what do you know - it is. Seconding #Quentin's comment that you should not do this, but I can confirm this does populate the mail body with form content (on Debian/Firefox, anyways).
<form target="_top" action="mailto:{YOUR_EMAIL}" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
<label>name</label>
<input name="name" type="text"><br>
<label>Your email</label>
<input name="email" type="email"><br>
<label>Your message</label>
<textarea name="message" id="" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" name="">
</form>
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Im working on one of my 5 projects in the freecodecamp Responsive Web Design course (the survey project) and I am trying to use the built in required function in html5 in my email input but it isn't working, when I click enter rather than giving the little popup asking for a valid email address with an # in it, nothing happens at all. Im a very new developer so humor me if im asking a dumb question but I can't seem to figure it out on my own.
HTML:
<form id="survey-form">
<label for="name">Full Name</label>
<input type="text" class="form-inputs" id="name" name="firstname" placeholder="Enter Name Here">
<label for="email">Email</label>
<input type="email" class="form-inputs" id="email" placeholder="Enter A Valid Email Adress" required>
</form>
Normally validation doesn't run unless you try to submit the form.
Add a submit button after your input element and try the same code. The end result could be something like this:
<form id="survey-form">
<label for="name">Full Name</label>
<input type="text" class="form-inputs" id="name" name="firstname" placeholder="Enter Name Here">
<label for="email">Email</label>
<input type="email" class="form-inputs" id="email" placeholder="Enter A Valid Email Adress" name="email" required>
<button type="submit">Submit Me</button>
</form>
If you require to send the form to a specific file to do the submission process you could add an action attribute to the form tag but from what you are saying that's outside of what you're currently studying.
EDIT based on Tieson T.'s comment
I added the name="email" to the email input in the code example.
I'm trying to make a form that will send a person's details to me in an email. I've been successful in getting the page to start a new email to the selected email address, but the input values from the form are not populating in the email. It's just empty.
Here is my code:
<form role="form" action="MAILTO: myemail#gmail.com">
<input type="text" placeholder="Name" id="name">
<br><br>
<input type="text" placeholder="Phone" id="phone">
<br><br>
<input type="email" placeholder="Email" id="email">
<br><br>
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
I've googled this and asked for help on the forums for the program I'm using to learn, but no success. Any help appreciated. Thanks!
Your code is right, but you were missing 2 things. 1 the method of the form, in this case method="post" and the inputs need a name not an id. Code is corrected below:
<form role="form" action="MAILTO: myemail#gmail.com" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
<input type="text" placeholder="Name" name="name">
<br><br>
<input type="text" placeholder="Phone" name="phone">
<br><br>
<input type="email" placeholder="Email" name="email">
<br><br>
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
Also to make the email better formatted I have added an enctype.
I have this form in html5:
<form method="post" action="form.php" >
<input id="fname" name="fname" type="text" value="" required/>
<input id="lname" name="lname" type="text" value="" required/>
<input id="submit" name="submit" type="submit" value="" />
</form>
Sometimes i receive empty fields. Can you tell me why?
It is best practice to include the aria-required attribute too:
<form method="post" action="form.php" >
<input id="fname" name="fname" type="text" value="" required aria-required=”true” />
<input id="lname" name="lname" type="text" value="" required aria-required=”true” />
</form>
Note that older browsers may not support support these attributes. On any browser that doesn't support these attributes, front-end form validation could still be achieved through javascript. You can learn more about javascript form validation here.
Remember it is important to validate input on the server too.
You can't make yours constraints only on the client side. Anyone can send a POST request to your server without using your form easily.
It's possible with all recent browsers to edit the DOM and remove the required part too.
HTML5 Validations are great for helping users but it's not for security/checking.
How to do make a file downloadable when the html form is submitted?
<form id="form" name="form" action="" method="">
<div>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="">
</div>
<div>
<input type="email" name="email" id="email" value="">
</div>
<div>
<input type="text" name="dob" id="dob" value="">
</div>
<div>
<input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" value="">
</div>
<input type="submit" value="Submit"/>
</form>
You have two approaches:
From your server side, return a direct link to your file placed on the server (e.g: this image). Be careful with this option.
You load and process the image on your server, wrap and send it on the response via HTTP. (very useful if you have to send a pre-processed file like an auto generated PDF or XLS)
Both options have a lot of information and examples around the internet, just google it.
Sometimes in my web application even I declare form autocomplete is off sometimes its not working and it autocomplete I typed in my inputs.
Can anyone know how to solved this kind of problem.I use chrome by the way.
sample of my code: sometimes its autocompleting my inputs even I declare turn off already..
<form autocomplete="off" method="post">
<input autocomplete="off" type="text" name="name">
<input autocomplete="off" type="text" name="age">
<input type="submit" >
</form>
<form autocomplete="off" method="post">
<input autocomplete="off" type="text" name="name" value="">
<input autocomplete="off" type="text" name="age" value="">
<input type="submit" >
</form>
The solution is simple and working perfectly in all browsers.
Add disabled and autocomplete="off" attribute to the form fields( name, age, etc.)
<form method="post">
<input disabled="disabled" autocomplete="off" type="text" class="name" name="name">
<input disabled="disabled" autocomplete="off" type="text" class="age" name="age">
<input type="submit" >
</form>
On Page Load enable the fields after few miliseconds.
use the below JS CODE
function getRidOffAutocomplete(){
var timer = window.setTimeout( function(){
$('.name, .age').prop('disabled',false);
clearTimeout(timer);
}, 800);
}
// Invoke the function
getRidOffAutocomplete();
This isn't a bug - autocomplete isn't supported by Chrome any more. It's a design decision by their developers and you should design for it rather than attempting to work around it. See my answer to this very similar question.