Help me with my Form - Textarea ??

[spongebob]

How Dee Do, from me to you,,,

I am having some trouble with this simple online form, I want to leave a textarea or comments box for people to leave my company feedback. here is my code.

<form action="MAILTO:richard.hargreaves@assigns.co.uk" method="post"

enctype="text/plain">

<h3>Please tell others about your experiance<br>This form sends your feedback to

Assigns Ltd</h3>
First Name:<br><input type="text" name="name"
size="50">
<br>
Last Name:<br><input type="text" name="name"
size="50">
<br>
Company:<br><input type="text" name="company"
size="50">
<br>
eMail:<br><input type="text" name="mail"
size="50">
<br>
Comment:<br><textarea rows="10" cols="50"></textarea>
<br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Reset">

</form>

The comment: <textarea> at the bottom is not appearing in the email returned when clicking submit. I have tried adding an input attribute but that merely creates a small single line text box next to my big text area.

Any ideas on how I can increase the size of a text box to multi line, or indeed get the text area to work and send the information to the email?

Many Thanks
Richard

[pagetta]

your textarea doesn't appear to have a name this might help so that the code has a name to pass through to your email.

[sands]

The reason you are not receiving any text typed into the textarea is because you have not added a name to it. For example in the email input box you have "name='mail'". Similarly you need a name for the comment field to work. For instance name='comment'.

[spongebob]

Absolutely fantastic, how simple was that, new working code for all others in need is:

<form action="MAILTO:richard.hargreaves@assigns.co.uk" method="post" enctype="text/plain">

<h3>Please tell others about your experiance<br>This form sends your feedback to Assigns Ltd</h3>
First Name:<br><input type="text" name="name"
size="50">
<br>
Last Name:<br><input type="text" name="name"
size="50">
<br>
Company:<br><input type="text" name="company"
size="50">
<br>
eMail:<br><input type="text" name="mail"
size="50">
<br>
Comment:<br><textarea rows="10" cols="50" name="comment"></textarea>
<br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Reset">

</form>

so just 'name="comment"

Thanks guys

[DrTandem1]

Yes, that should do the trick. However, using such a form will no doubt give you a ton of spam.

[getmea]

Having the mailto: email address hard-coded will definitely get you spam one day. Dr. Tandem and a few of us discussed hijacked forms from spammers recently. Give it a reading.