Can someone explain to me the whole HTML form action=” please?
The general problem with form action=”mailto:someone” is that it relies on the user to actually email the form to you. If the user’s system is not properly set up with a default email client it will fail. Also, a lot of users (I would) when they see their email program pop up will simply close it and not send you anything. A preferred solution is to use form action=”some php or aspx or coldfusion or cgi file” – and have the web server process the form and (if required) email it to you. So that way the web server is doing the emailing. To figure out how to set this up for your web server (assuming you know what scripting language your server uses) just google “
