How2 add a form to your site
This article is about the form that I have created using the Mailto: command at www.iWebUSerSites.com for submitting sites.
Before I start and try to take any credit for this, I found the bulk of the information that I needed at: http://www.htmlgoodies.com
I used two articles, firstly: So, You Want A Form, Huh? this article gives an overview of the type of fields that you may find in a form.
Rather than repeating all of the information on these pages I would suggest that you read the articles linked above.
This method does mean that the users default mail application is launched to send the data.
The form that I created is shown below (followed by the code):
Shown below is the code that created the form above, adapted from Gusetbook code:
To add this html to the page that I wanted to display it in, I created a text box (the size of which is trial and error), then inserted the text FORMTEXTGOESHERE, this is shown below:
Next, I published the site. Then using MassReplaceIt I did a Find and Replace on the AddMe.html file, I searched for FORMTEXTGOESHERE and replaced it with all of the code shown above. Then when I visited the site I saw the form that I had created, Click Here to see an example of using MassReplaceIt.
The format in which the email comes through is not very pretty, but it is readable, as below:
Before adding, ENCTYPE="text/plain" to the end of the mailto: line it was even worse!
