Send e-mail using client side Java script

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Does anyone know how to send an e-mail with form information using client-side java script? I know this is sort of a strange questions but it’s for a class I’m taking and we can’t use any server side scripting. Any information, web sites, etc. would be helpful at this point!

Many thanks,
Shane

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You can post a form to an email address, although I haven’t done this for years… I don’t remember the details, such as whether you need to set SMTP server details or not.

Although you will never have the flexibility of Server-side scripting, you can use the method mentioned above like this:

As for a javascript method, I’m not aware of anything that would be easy to use. Maybe another lounger will have a suggestion for this.

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You could dynamically build a mailto link with JavaScript, and then use JavaScript to “click” it (have I done that, or was I clicking a button?), but otherwise you have to know a huge amount about the mail facilities of the server…

(Looking up code…)

I made a page with radio buttons, the user chose one and this automatically submitted the form with that option. The code for one of the radio buttons was:

Exact client code

SearchSubmit is the NAME attribute of the Submit button. I wonder… could you send a click event to a mailto link?

Look forward to seeing your progress on this.

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Many thanks to both of you. I’ll give it a try and see what I can come up with.

Thanks,
freemans

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Many thanks to both of you. I’ll give it a try and see what I can come up with.

Thanks,
freemans

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You could dynamically build a mailto link with JavaScript, and then use JavaScript to “click” it (have I done that, or was I clicking a button?), but otherwise you have to know a huge amount about the mail facilities of the server…

(Looking up code…)

I made a page with radio buttons, the user chose one and this automatically submitted the form with that option. The code for one of the radio buttons was:

Exact client code

SearchSubmit is the NAME attribute of the Submit button. I wonder… could you send a click event to a mailto link?

Look forward to seeing your progress on this.

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