Forms Problem

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Hello everyone
I am having problems with a forms page. It is set up to email me to a my
host and then fowarded to my personal email address.
It has worked in the past just fine but now it has stopped sending me
emails, i have talked with tech support at the host and they say everything
at their end is just fine. my front page ext. are setup correctly.
Here is how the coding looks for the submit button:

<p align="left"> </p>
<p align="left"> </p>
<p align="left"><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><input
type="submit"
value="Submit" name="B1">
</a>
</form>
<p> </p>

</body>

</html>

Does anyone see anything wrong ????
Thanks for any help
Brian
 
I do not see a form here - there is a (spam collecting) mailto: link which
depends on the user having an email client that will work with their
browser - some don't, especially those that use hotmail or MSN for email.
And there is a submit button which, based on the snippet of code, does
nothing but get in the way of the mailto link.

If this is part of a complete form, remove the link and check that the
<form action= is correct.
 
Wrapping a submit button in a link is invalid html
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">
<input type="submit"value="Submit" name="B1">
</a>
-remove the link and set the form properties to send to email

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| Hello everyone
| I am having problems with a forms page. It is set up to email me to a my
| host and then fowarded to my personal email address.
| It has worked in the past just fine but now it has stopped sending me
| emails, i have talked with tech support at the host and they say everything
| at their end is just fine. my front page ext. are setup correctly.
| Here is how the coding looks for the submit button:
|
| <p align="left"> </p>
| <p align="left"> </p>
| <p align="left"><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><input
| type="submit"
| value="Submit" name="B1">
| </a>
| </form>
| <p> </p>
|
| </body>
|
| </html>
|
| Does anyone see anything wrong ????
| Thanks for any help
| Brian
 
You have no "form" tags around your input type and it is a mish-mash of code
that apparently doesn't seem to do anything. Having your email address
exposed like that is an open invitation for spammer bots.

You need to use something like a form and processor script which embeds the
email in the script itself, not in the html code.

There are many scripts like that around. Try here for one (uses a Linux
server) : http://www.ezscripting.com
 
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