document.form.submit to email automatically 1

marcow · Jan 17, 2001

When the submit button is pressed on a
<form method="post" action="mailto:adress@adress.com">
form, it automatically sends out an email from the users email client.

Now I want to do the same with a confirm box.

confirm ("bla bla bla&quot

document.formname.submit ()

But this only opens a new email and visitor still has to press send. How do I get it to send it out automatically as with the submitbutton of the form (as above)?

PS No I am not trying to spam people with this. They get a confirm popup after filling out info and then they also get their browsers insecure warning.

luciddream · Jan 17, 2001

document.formname.submit() should do the exact same thing a submit button does. adam@aauser.com

marcow · Jan 17, 2001

Somehow there is a difference.
This one opens an new email message without sending it:
<html>
<head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function autosubmit() {
document.form1.submit ()
}
onload=autosubmit;
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="mailto:address@you.com" >
</form>
</body>
</html>

And this one sends it when pressing the submit.

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>

<form name="form1" method="post" action="mailto:adress@you.com" >
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

PepperPepsi · Jan 17, 2001

Hi Marcow,

The Reason you get the new email message without sending it is because you didn't have anything in the form to send, to solve this problem, simply add a hidden filed, for example:

<html>
<head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function autosubmit() {
document.form1.submit ()
}
onload=autosubmit;
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="mailto:address@you.com">
<input type="hidden" name="nothing" value="">
</form>
</body>
</html>

This should give you the same result as you press the submit button..

hope this helps, Chiu Chan
cchan@gefmus.com

http://www.emagine-solutions.com

froggerIII · Jan 17, 2001

put the onload=autosubmit inside your body tags:

<body onload="autosubmit();"> ray
rheindl@bju.edu

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