Emailing the Data on the Form
Create a simple Web page that allows the user to email feedback.

Now we can create pages with fields, reset the fields, and click a button to submit the data.

The FORM tag requires you to define the attributes METHOD and ACTION.

Set METHOD to POST to email your form.

ACTION can be set to the URL for a program (usually CGI) on the Web server to process the form data.

An easy way to email data from a form is to set ACTION

<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="mailto:nancy@valinux.com>
<TEXTAREA NAME="suggestions" ROWS=5 COLS=50>
How can we improve morale at VA Linux Systems?
<TEXTAREA><BR>
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Mail my suggestions!">
<INPUT TYPE=RESET>
</FORM>

displays as




VA Linux Systems logo

   
I would appreciate comments, corrections, and
suggestions for how I can improve this course.

Nancy Blachman
Variable Symbols, Inc.
356 Bush Street
Mountain View, CA 94041-1332
650 966 8999
650 966 8998 fax
nancy- at -variablesymbols.com

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