"Send" Botton without launching defult email app. how?

Hi Abdul

I may be wrong but I believe a mailto link always opens the default mail app (whatever the user has chosen). I don't think you can control that.

Ryan

hmm... example, on the top right corner, there is a "question mark" symbol for help. When user click and fill in the contact forms and message details. In my case, how do you allow the user to click "Submit Message" and mail to directly to company's admin email instead of launching default windows email app?

Abdul: if you are on short with time you can simply install one of the ready made contact forms and that functionality will work out of the box!

I see what you mean now :) That's a Ruby script we've used for that. If you search the web for Ruby or PHP contact form, you should be good to go.

There's no way to just create a submit form out of only html and css. To create a submit form that a user can enter data into and send an email to you directly from a website requires at least php or ruby (from what I've heard). This is a pretty intricate feature to fully understand if you are new to web design and development. PHP get's handled on your servers side of things, so the information given to your website will be handled by your server, therefore saving you the trouble of having it done client-side (having a mail program pop up)

Here is a php example: http://www.freecontactform.com/email_form.php

Sounds to me like you're using "mailto:" in your HTML

You'll need to create the form in HTML and use a php send function that's called upon when the form is submitted.

I'd be happy to help if you prefer Abdul.

hey guys thanks for being truely supportive! i just got started with the PHP lessons today. i hope i could end with a desired result when complecting "Adding a Contact Form" course.