I almost finished designing and coding my first website. Got stuck thou at the contact.html page.
i want in this page a contact form that can be completed by the website visitors.
I designed a form like many around the web. name>input field / e-mail>input field and message>inputfiled
My questions are:

1. I want the user to be prompted when one of the fields does not have any information. a pop up or something. how do I do that?
2. I want in the message input box a scroll bar to appear if the message is longer than the actual design dimensions. how do i code this?
3. What am I supposed to do so that the info completed in the form reach it's destination? the destination is me ... can't figure out the process. Is there a e-mail box or something and the data filed in reach this e-mail box? I really need guidance here ...
4. I want to create an e-mail for this website: info at websitename dot com. When visitors click this it should open outlook or something so that they can write the e-mail. How do I do that?

10x Atouck

Im afraid i dont have time to go into details but im sure someone behind me will but...

1. You want some javascript validation, there are many pre-written validation libraries out there but try a google search - http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jav...ient=firefox-a

2. I would suggest using a Textarea instead of a text field and it should automatically create a scrollbar when the content becomes too big.

3. I would suggest using a server side language to validate the data again and then email it to you (e.g. PHP) although there are other ways of simply emailing the form fields to a certain address.

4. You can usually create email addresses for your domain through your host's admin panel (often cPanel) and to create a link that will automatically open an email try:

<a href="mailto:info@domain.com?subject=mySubject&body=myBbody">Email me</a>

Hope this helps in some way...

Stuart

Originally Posted by stoot98

3. I would suggest using a server side language to validate the data again and then email it to you (e.g. PHP) although there are other ways of simply emailing the form fields to a certain address.


Stuart

Is it possible to send the info from the fields to the same address the web site uses for contact?