Help with a table

wmorri · Nov 16, 2008

Hi I need to know if I can connect an table to an email address. I want a person to be able to click submit and have the information in the table to be sent to my email so that i can contact the customer.

Here is what I have for a table:

HTML:

<table>
<tr>
<td>Name</td><td><input type=text name="Name" size=30 maxlength=50 value="">
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email Address</td><td><input type=text name="Email_Address" size=30 maxlength=50 value="">
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Phone Number</td><td><input type=text name="Phone_Number" size=30 maxlength=50 value="">
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Comments:</td><td><textarea name=exComments rows=8 cols=50></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td><td align=center><input type=submit class=button value="Submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>

Besides this I am lost.

Cheers!

dm01 · Nov 16, 2008

This should work.

HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<title>test</title>
<style type="text/css">
td.center {text-align: center}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form action="MAILTO:[email protected]" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
<table>
<tr>
<td>Name</td><td><input type="text" name="Name" size="30" maxlength="50" value=""></input>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Email Address</td><td><input type="text" name="Email_Address" size="30" maxlength="50" value=""></input>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Phone Number</td><td><input type="text" name="Phone_Number" size="30" maxlength="50" value=""></input>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Comments:</td><td><textarea name="exComments" rows="8" cols="50"></textarea>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td> </td><td class="center"><input type="submit" class="button" value="Submit"></input></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
[/code]

The most significant change is the addition of the <form>. Everything else is just XHTML Strict 1.0 validation (but you could use the DTD HTML Strict 4.01).

Remember to close your elements! :)

wmorri · Nov 17, 2008

Hi,

Thanks a lot, I haven't run through the validator yet so I am sure that I will have a lot of fixing do to.

Cheers!

dm01 · Nov 17, 2008

All markup that I post is valid XHTML 1.0 with CSS Level 2.1. This is why I take twenty minutes to three hours longer than everyone else to get my ideas onto the web.

I don't know if your PHP will be very impressed with the mailto attribute, but you can see.

wmorri · Nov 17, 2008

Hi,

I currently don't have any PHP coding for my webpage. Would it be a good idea to add some. I don't really know a thing about PHP.

Cheers!

dm01 · Nov 18, 2008

Sorry, I thought you did as I was failing to pay attention. See how it works without PHP. I would not try to fix something that already works.

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