I programmed a HTML application form which I insert into my MySQL database.
After that i send the application form data as a HTML E-Mail to the applicant.
Does anyone know (responsive) HTML E-Mail templates which i can use for this?
I can only find templates for newsletters etc. I want to send the application
data in a "list" design
Forms in an HTML email have been a risky venture for a long time and still continue today. It places a security risk that some email clients flat out block interactivity with it (e.g. Outlook) and most others have some sort of warning or limited capability filter on them. (Campaign Monitor)
There is also speculation (but no real solid facts) that HTML forms can reduce deliverability to some ISPs.
It is recommended to send the recipient to a landing page to fill in a form there via their web browser where the security risk is greatly reduced and so are the restrictions and weird behavior that email servers can present.
If you were aware of all this and sending to only an audience that can receive and submit these no problem, I would recommend looking at this code style for your design - Hybrid Code
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I have created an html form with text boxes and radio buttons ect.
I can email the form to an email address.
now the problem, when i fill in the form and click reply, i only get my blank html form back no values were left inside the textbox's.
Please help
We did some fairly extensive research about HTML forms in emails for a client of ours. The bottom line is that it barely works, so it’s best to link to a form in a browser.
What Quentin said holds water, many email clients (cough, outlook) are very specific in regards to their support for HTML emails. In fact most don't even support div's or embedded <style> blocks. Let alone an HTML form.
Your best bet is to use a URL that they click on, which in-turn opens up a form for them to fill out. If you need to capture some of their information automatically (such as email). you can generate query strings and in your mailer have it add the information in dynamicallly..
i.e; <a href="http://awesomeform.com/form.php?email=$client_email">
In email it would look like: http://awesomeform.com/form.php?email=myemail#email.com
Either way
If you are insistent on attempting this, use the email boilerplate to get you started. It has a ton of "best practices" and tips/tricks built right into it.
http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/
Complex HTML doesn't mix with many email clients. Forms are especially poorly supported.
Link to an HTML document available over HTTP instead. People can click a link and open it in a regular web browser.
Really simple here but i am trying to generate a link within an email that popups a page but its not working it also is througing a security exception in outlook 365 how does one properly open a popup from email with correct height and width of window.
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Using scripts is totally unsupported in emails.
"Scripting in Emails
The short answer is that scripting is unsupported in emails. This is hardly surprising, given the obvious security risks involved with a script running inside an application that has all that personal information stored in it.
Webmail clients are mostly running the interface in JavaScript and are not keen on your email interfering with that, and desktop client filters often consider JavaScript to be an indicator of spam or phishing emails.
Even in the cases where it might run, there really is little benefit to scripting in emails. Keep your emails as straight HTML and CSS, and avoid the hassle."
Source: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/dev-resources/guides/coding/
You can use target="_blank" instead.
You have to use the a tag this way:
Open page in new window
Hope it helps.
This is rather a discussion I'm trying to start to get a better insight on how other people solve this problem:
On our web application we currently have the ability to store HTML snippets and pages in the database and render them or use them for email templates. Users have the ability to create or modifiy these templates.
Because we're expanding the functionality of the application, we rely on emails to deliver messages to the users of the application. These emails rely on the templates as well to generate content. The problem is that the emails are starting to get some high scores on the SPAM filters due the content of the HTML Snippets.
As a proof of concept I wish to remove the ability to create/modify these snippets and make them HTML compliant to reduce the SPAM scoring. The discussion i'd like to start now:
Would you store these snippets in the database and call upon them when needed, or would you go with a hieracy of classes that can generate the correct HTML by accepting the required parameters?
What would you do and why?
You can generate PDF from any html you want and then send to user email.
I do this way.
Have you taken a look at PostageApp?
It has the ability to create HTML + CSS templates with automatic in-lining, which makes your design a lot easier. In addition, the preview function of the templates will let you know if you have used any invalid HTML or CSS markups, which might get flagged as spammy.
(Full Disclosure: I am the Product Manager of PostageApp.)
A few years ago, it seemed to be accepted wisdom to avoid HTML formatting in favor of plain text when sending notification e-mails to users, because a) not all e-mail readers supported HTML and b) HTML-formatted e-mail was more likely to land in the user’s spam folder.
Are these arguments still valid today, or are HTML e-mails fair game now?
Any restrictions I should keep in mind?
EDIT:
I'm planning to use only a small subset of HTML -- bold, italic, links, lists and tables will be sufficient.
Making html email work correctly everywhere is a very hard task (each client seems to support a different small subset of html / css etc.).
If you decide on sending html email, be sure to send multi-part mime messages (both html and plaintext versions in the same email) so clients which don't understand html can just render the text correctly.
I believe HTML is the way to go these days, all clients I have worked with use HTML to render their emails, but to keep it safe, you should send it both formats, HTML and plaintext. With .Net its simply create an AlternateView.
Here are a couple of resources that I have found very useful
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/19/design-and-build-an-email-newsletter-without-losing-your-mind/
http://www.mailchimp.com/kb/article/how-to-code-html-emails/
Prepare your email HTML according to email templates. You can find many services for preparing and testing your html email. Just Google around.
And for sending part, prepare a plain text version of your message, and send the email as multipart. You can use an open source library like Zend Mail or an online app like MailChimp. In this way, if the client app doesn't support HTML, it's shown the plain text version instead.
Most of you probably know the following problem: You edit an HTML, view the result in your browser and happy with it.Then, you send it through different mail providers (AOL,YAHOO,GMAIL...), and discover that after going through their mail servers it may look
completely different (not to say worse) than you've expected it to. The view differs not only between what you see in your own browser before and after sending the HTML as an email, but between different email providers as well. A short "view source" will convince you that each email provider CHANGES (generically) the HTML.
My question:
A.I've heard there's an application allowing you to check how your html would look after going through each one of the US main email providers, so I can edit my html respectively. Can you tell me where I can find it?
B.Alternative ingenious solution? (less preferable..)
The only application I know which checks a lot of email providers is MailChimps' Inbox Inspector: http://www.mailchimp.com/features/power_features/inbox_inspector/. It sends screenshots of your email from several different inboxes. However, it's not free.
Alternatively, you can use appropriate HTML for emails, which will result in the same email in almost every inbox. Apprpriate HTML for emails are:
Use tables instead of divs
Use inline styles
Don't use background images
Do not float