Question

I’m being a bit cheap here and stealing a website template for my business rather than making one from scratch.

However my question is on the contact form – how do I link it up to email it to my email?

<div id="contact_form">
            <h4>Send us a message now!</h4>
            <form method="post" name="contact" id="ok" action="#">

                <label for="author">Name:</label> <input type="text" id="author" name="author" class="required input_field" />
                <div class="cleaner_h10"></div>
                <label for="email">Email:</label> <input type="text" id="email" name="email" class="validate-email required input_field" />
                <div class="cleaner_h10"></div>

                <label for="phone">Phone:</label> <input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" class="input_field" />
                <div class="cleaner_h10"></div>

                <label for="text">Message:</label> <textarea id="text" name="text" rows="0" cols="0" class="required"></textarea>
                <div class="cleaner_h10"></div>

                <input type="submit" class="submit_btn float_l" name="submit" id="submit" value="Send" />
                <input type="reset" class="submit_btn float_r" name="reset" id="reset" value="Reset" />

            </form>
        </div>
    </div>

that’s my form – also I need to add white to the background of the actual form (its all black ) so you can’t see the boxes – how do I go about doing that?

cheers for the help

Answer 1

The most basic way is to set the action to your email address:

<form action="mailto:[e-mail]" method="post" enctype="text/plain">

http://webdesign.about.com/od/forms/a/aa072699mailto.htm