How to Create an HTML Form That Sends You an Email
web formsHow to Create an HTML Form That Sends You an Email
Have you ever set up a form on your site, only to forget to check the entries that were submitted? Creating an HTML form that sends an email after submission is one of the simplest and most effective ways of resolving this issue.
Here, we're going to walk you through how to create a form that sends an email to you, as well as the customer, to ensure the form was received.
Ideally, browsers would allow you to route form submissions directly to an email address. However, the reason they don't is that emailing directly from an HTML web form would reveal the visitor's email address, making the user vulnerable to malicious activities, such as phishing.
Adding a mailto: address to the form can be a potential way to circumvent this challenge. This option activates the default mail client on the user's computer, prompting them to send the form over email. The web browser sends a request to the email service provider, not to the specified address.
There are a few problems with the mailto: option. For example, it isn't 100% compatible with all browsers, it isn't very user-friendly, and it's impossible to control the formatting of the data when the form is sent by the browser.
Beyond that, a warning message will pop up when the user goes to submit the form, letting them know that the information they're about to send will not be encrypted...
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