Form Submission (Please Help!)

autopost · Jan 9, 2008

I want to create a form that will send me the data through E-mail and then take the user to another HTML page. Can this be achieved with HTML and JavaScript? 
 
Example: 
 
 
<html> 
<body> 
<form action="MAILTO:[email protected]" method="post" enctype="text/plain"> 
 
<h3>This form sends an e-mail to an E-mail address specified.</h3> 
Name: 
<input type="text" name="name" 
value="yourname" size="20"> 
 
Mail: 
<input type="text" name="mail" 
value="yourmail" size="20"> 
 
Comment: 
<input type="text" name="comment" 
value="yourcomment" size="40"> 
 
<input type="submit" value="Send"> 
<input type="reset" value="Reset"> 
 
</form> 
</body> 
</html> 
 
 
The above code will send an E-mail to me. How can I take the user to another page after he clicks SUBMIT? For example, <a class="postlink" href="http://www.EnglishBest.com">http://www.EnglishBest.com</a> or a THANKS! page. 
 
Expecting your help, 
 
Susha John.I don't think you can do this using the logic you mentioned,since once submit is triggered the rest of the page will be out of scope, 
You will need to serverside scripting or may be some other logic. 
 
Cheers 
 
KhalidThanks a lot, Khalid. 
 
I don't want to use server side scripting. Any other way to achieve this?This seems to work... 
 
<html> 
<head> 
 
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> 
 
function forwardpage() 
{ 
window.location.href = <a class="postlink" href="http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/">http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/</a>"http://www.yahoo.com"; 
} 
 
</script> 
 
</head> 
<body> 
<form action="mailto:[email protected]" method="post" enctype="text/plain" onsubmit="forwardpage()"> 
 
<h3>This form sends an e-mail to an E-mail address specified.</h3> 
Name: 
<input type="text" name="name" 
value="yourname" size="20"> 
 
Mail: 
<input type="text" name="mail" 
value="yourmail" size="20"> 
 
Comment: 
<input type="text" name="comment" 
value="yourcomment" size="40"> 
 
<input type="submit" value="Send"> 
<input type="reset" value="Reset"> 
 
</form> 
</body> 
</html>Interesting pyro,Actually it does seem to work, 
Logically it seesm wrong though, 
 
This why, 
 
once window.location.href is triggered the previous page should have been out of scope,hence reaching at the point to triggere action would not be possible,But it works so 
 
Why am I complaining..

Awsome work around. 
 
KhalidI agree. I expected to have to set a Timeout or something. I decided to try it that way first and it worked... hmm...

Cheers!try it with NS6+

KhalidI don't have any email set up with Netscape 7. It does, however pop up Netscape Composer, so it seems like it would work. Doesn't it?No,It does not look like ti works for ns 
 
I have just setup an email account for this testing,I get the mail but no redirection/forwarding 
 
KhalidI tried in Mozilla 1.2 and what it does in that is pops up the email in my Outlook, I then would have to manually hit send, and there is no re-direct. So, it was probably an IE bug...

Anyway, like Khalid originally mentioned, server side coding is going to be your best bet for cross-browser compatibility - and you won't get any warning messages...

Form Submission (Please Help!)

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