how do you submit form data to a person readable email? 1

[Naz]

I am collecting form data and I want to post that data in a form readable by a person. The html SUBMIT to a MAILTO: produces a .att file which is good for databases but bad to read. I want to use javascript to intercept the form (which I can do) then the data to be put into the body text field. I have to use javascript or freebie easy to use stuff as I barely know javascript without getting into perl and all that.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Naz<br><br>

 

[rkmarcks]

If you've intercepted the form data, couldn't you simply write it to the text box using something like:<br><br>textboxname.value=&quot;data1.value + &quot;/n&quot; + ...+ datax.value&quot;;<br><br>The /n is a line break<br><br>Alternatively, couldn't you use document.write(data) to write it to a new page.<br><br>Where you've defined data=&quot;data1.value + &quot;/n&quot; + ...+ datax.value&quot;;<br><br>Russ

 

[Naz]

I got part way there but that .value looks like what I was missing.<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Being new to this forum is it usual to post up the final solution or would you just laugh at my amaturish coding?<br><br>Naz

 

[Thrud]

I may have missed the point but I gather you simply want to use a mailto to send form data via the surfers email sowftware without getting all that &ffh=334&fdfh=121 rubbish.<br><br>If so put the following in the form tag.<br>&lt;form action=&quot;mailto:address@place&quot; method=&quot;post&quot; enctype=&quot;text/plain&quot;&gt;<br><br>changing the encoding with the enctype attribute will make the resulting e-mail much more readable.<br><br>Sorry if this is not quite what you were after, however changing the encoding form the default URL encoded format may still be useful to you.

 

[Naz]

Excellent, that is exactly what I was after, thank you.<br><br><br>Naz <p>Guy<br><a href=mailto:guy@noisygraphics.co.uk>guy@noisygraphics.co.uk</a><br><a href=dont bother I'm still agonising over the text blurb.>Noisy Graphics</a><br>Experienced multimedia and game content artist, lots of 3d experience, also known to draw pictures. Fast becoming site designer and through pain and lack of sleep a coder. Game design and GUI a bit of a speciality.

 

[MaKSiNG]

I know this is really old ....
The 'enctype' works well for me, but I also see the submit action as part of the output of the form.
I there anyway to prevent this event from being added to the results of the form?

Also, is there a way to format the output yet further?

TIA,
MaKS

Thx,
MaKS