I have Win 98 on a Compaq Presario and am running Internet Explorer.
I created a mailto form on my site and it looks great. When the information is filled in and the "submit" button is clicked, I get an email with the form data. My problem is finding out how to have the same "submit" button email me the info AND send the person who filled out the form to a "Thank you for submitting" page.

Here's what I recently tried:
<FORM METHOD="Post" Action="mailto:myownlawyer@excite.com" onSubmit="thankyouppl.htm" ENCTYPE="text/plain">
For the "Submit" button, I put:
<INPUT TYPE="Submit" VALUE="Submit">

Any suggestions?

with a basic mailto: form, i do not think you can send the visitor any thank you mail.

unless the recipient email address has an autosender enabled in it.

u have to use some form of server side mail script which does it for u..

go to hotscripts.com there are lots of email form script.

find out what ur host supports (cgi/php/asp) then get the relevant one

What I'm actually trying to do is... once the person fills out the "mailto" form, then clicks on "Submit", I want them to be redirected or sent in some way to another page on my site which says "thank you for submitting" or something like that. What was happening was the person clicked on "Submit" and I would get the e-mail notification but the person wouldn't see any change on their screen so they would think the "Submit" wasn't working. I end up with 5 or 6 emails for the same person because they kept hitting "Submit".

I did find out I could add a small "popup" thank you by putting:
<INPUT TYPE="Submit" VALUE="Submit" onClick="alert('Thank you!')">onClick="alert('Thank you!')">

Anyt other suggestions? Someone else told me to try CGI but the code lost me in the first line.

Thanks!

this will do the trick for you

<FORM METHOD="Post" Action="mailto:myownlawyer@excite.com" ENCTYPE="text/plain"
onsubmit="alert('thanks');location.href='as.htm'">


just change the as.htm to a page of ur choice and change the path if necessary..

also change the message in the alert from thanks to something else.

on a side note, u can remove the alert from the form as you can include the message in the page where the visitor is going to be redirected.
then in that case the form tag will look like this

<FORM METHOD="Post" Action="mailto:myownlawyer@excite.com" ENCTYPE="text/plain"

onsubmit="location.href='as.htm'">

hope this helps..

what will happen is when someone hits the submit button, first they will get the standard message saying this form is submitted using email...... normal stuff, then they will get redirected to the page u mentioned.


and one more thing which i forgot,

whether the visitor says ok and agrees to send the mail through his/her default email client or not, they will be redirected to the next page..

so u cannot verify whether the mail has been sent or not.. this is the download side of it..

well...i was going to help.............i guess i was beaten to it.....by quite some while..........hmmmmmmm.........