Is it possible to put html form elements in mandrill app and send emails? I tried various possible things to send textbox and radio button but it does not show up in gmail.
No you can't use forms in emails.
"The short of it is that email clients consider email forms to be a security risk. While some email clients simply warn you of potential danger, others outright disable the forms. So if your client wants to send out a form, they should know that most of their recipients will never be able to use it. And for those who can, they’ll think twice about submitting data when they see a warning from their email client." - campaignmonitor.
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I am autogenerating some Google Forms which have the automatic email collection field enabled. I would like to make it so that each of them can only be submitted by certain emails. As such, I would like to check that the auto-collected email is an allowed email address before they submit the Form.
I would prefer not to use a regular textbox that says "enter email here", because then any user who opens the form could input an email which may not be their own.
I know I can check the email is correct after the Form is submitted, but I would prefer to do it before.
Is this possible?
Currently, it seems there is no way to validate automatically collected email before form submission.
I have below code in my Html page
<p>
This is an email link:
Send mail!
</p>
when i click on the 'Send mail' it opens up an outlook email with body and subject. Is it possible to make body as read only , meaning the user should not be able to enter/change anything in the body of the email. How can we do this?
thanks,
sankar.
The mailto: protocol simply instructs an OS to open the user's default mail-handling program. Because of this, the way a user's computer reacts to the mailto: link is dependent on the mail program that the individual uses.
While some programs may support "read only" subject lines or messages, most will not because by doing so you may force a user to send a message that they don't agree with or fully wish to send (hence a security flaw would be exposed).
In order to acchieve this "readonly" effect, you may wish to send email using a server-side library like PHPMailer which gives you full control over certain fields of the email and the user full control of others.
Is it possible to send an email with a form inside ?
We want to send an email to our subscribers with an input text inside the email to get a complementary information, I havn't seen this before, is it possible to do that ?
If yes, which problems could we meet with that solution ?
I do not think that this is possible...
and even if it is, I wouldn't choose to do it.
You can not know what device your user will be on and if his mail client will support this.
If I were you, I'd just link them to the online form they have to fill. (You could use Google Docs for instance) or do it on your own website with an html form and write it to a database.
Why go through the pain of having to deal with hundrets of emails?
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.
How can i code a HTML (using CSS) file to send an email to me(i.e. to given email-id) by the visitor of that website?
Without using a server-side language, the best you can really do is a mailto link. That will open the user's default email editor with the "To" field populated with the value of your mailto link. You can create one of those like so:
Email Me!
It is possible to provide extra information in a mailto link, to populate more fields. For example, if you want to provide a subject:
Email Me!
You can also provide a value for the body, cc and bcc but I have no idea how well those default values are supported by various email clients.
Also note that this has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with CSS, which is used for styling documents. I've therefore removed the CSS tag from your question.
You cannot. You can use a tag:
Email Me
And this will open a mail client in the client side. The client must have it configured for being able to send a email.
If you want to create a form that, when the user presses a button "send" sends you a message, you must use a dynamic language such as PHP.