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Need to Send Email from HTML pages

Is there a way to use a form to send an email with no database? Is there an html element that can do this?

Answer 1

You could use an email link:

<a href="mailto:[e-mail]">Person</a>

Edit: If you really want to use a form, you could take advantage of the mailto parameters such as subject, body, cc, and bcc to customize your email. Here is an example:

// JS 
// Uses jQuery but could be done without
$(function() {
    $('div').click(function() {
        var emailLink = $('#email');
        emailLink.attr('href', 'mailto:[e-mail]?subject=' + $('#subject').val() + '&body=' + $('#body').val());
    })
});

/* CSS */
div {
    cursor: pointer;
    color: blue;
    text-decoration: underline;
}

<!-- HTML -->

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
Subject: <input type="text" id="subject"><br>
Body: <input type="text" id="body"><br>

<div>Update Email Settings</div>
<a id="email" href="mailto:[e-mail]">
    Send Email
</a>

Note that this would still use the user’s default email client and will not send the email on its own. However, it allows you to change the subject and content of the email from your form and pass it to the email client.