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Copy and paste off this page the following to get you
started:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Jaffri's Home Page!</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Save it as form1.html in some folder somewhere.
(Windows 3.x users save it as form1.htm) Go ahead and
give it its own folder. Start up your browser. Use it to open form1.html
and run Notepad and the browser side by side. This way you can
create your pages and almost instantly see the results of your
handiwork. If hitting the reload button is not quite resetting
everything, hit the reload button while holding down the [Shift]
key.
Type in your form tags.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Jaffri's Home Page!</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Next we must tell the browser where to send the data we
gather and how to send it. There are two basic things you can
do. 1) you can send the data to a cgi script for processing, or
2) you can have the data emailed to you. As for the first,
whoever wrote the script can tell you how the data should be
sent.
The second, or mailto form should have the following
attributes in the <FORM> tag.
Note- Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3.0 does
not support mailto forms. When you try to submit the
information, the new mail message window pops up. Explorer
does however support forms sent to a CGI script.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Jaffri's Home
Page!</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="mailto:xxx@xxx.xxx"
ENCTYPE="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>
This line is very important.
The only thing you have to do is plug in your email address
after mailto: The rest must be written exactly as shown. The
words FORM, METHOD, POST
& ACTION do not have to be capitalized but
there must be a space between each attribute.. between FORM
& METHOD, between POST & ACTION,
and between .com" & ENCTYPE.
Unfortunately the data will be sent to you in this 'only
useful to a computer' format...
FORMNAME=New+Entrant&NAME=A.A.+Jaffri&ADDRESS=19+Gandhi+Nagar
&CITY=Kootha+nallur&STATE=TN
What you'll need is a program to turn it into 'useful to a
human' format...
FORMNAME=New Entrant
NAME=A.A. Jaffri
ADDRESS=19 Gandhi Nagar
CITY=Kootha nallur
STATE=TN
Mailto
Formatter is an excellent little freeware utility that
does this job quite nicely. The example above illustrates that a form is nothing more
than input names (NAME, ADDRESS,
etc) paired with input values. The only real variable
is how we go about getting the values.
| Some mail programs are
capable of converting the data without
resorting to a separate program. You may want
to try this method first. Just remove the
instruction ENCTYPE="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
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