How to create an email form that can send email using html

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I know that are a lot of examples using the mailto  post action to send emails using just html form   But using that will actually  popup the send email dialog box e g  outlook dialog box and it is actually using our own smtp server to send the email   Is there anyway to create html form that will simply send email upon submission   E g  if using other javascript api can achieve the effect  say for e g  node js   Can anyone provide some code samples

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You can t  the only things you can do with html is open your default email application  You must use a server code to send an email  php  asp  net

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As the others said  you can t  You can find good examples of HTML-php forms on the web  here s a very useful link that combines HTML with javascript for validation and php for sending the email    Please check the full article  includes zip example  in the source  http   www html-form-guide com contact-form php-email-contact-form html  HTML    lt form method  post  name  contact form  action  contact-form-handler php  gt      Your Name       lt input type  text  name  name  gt      Email Address       lt input type  text  name  email  gt      Message       lt textarea name  message  gt  lt  textarea gt       lt input type  submit  value  Submit  gt   lt  form gt    JS    lt script language  JavaScript  gt  var frmvalidator    new Validator  contactform    frmvalidator addValidation  name   req   Please provide your name    frmvalidator addValidation  email   req   Please provide your email    frmvalidator addValidation  email   email      Please enter a valid email address     lt  script gt    PHP    lt  php  errors        myemail    yourname website com     lt -----Put Your email address here  if empty   POST  name           empty   POST  email          empty   POST  message            errors      n Error  all fields are required      name     POST  name     email address     POST  email     message     POST  message    if   preg match       a-z0-9-       a-z0-9-      a-z0-9-      a-z0-9-        a-z  2 3    i    email address          errors      n Error  Invalid email address      if  empty  errors      to    myemail   email subject    Contact form submission   name    email body    You have received a new message       Here are the details  n Name   name  n     Email   email address n Message  n  message    headers    From   myemail n    headers     Reply-To   email address   mail  to  email subject  email body  headers     redirect to the  thank you  page header  Location  contact-form-thank-you html        gt

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Short answer  you can t   HTML is used for the page s structure and can t send e-mails  you will need a server side language  such as PHP  to send e-mails  you can also use a third party service and let them handle the e-mail sending for you

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You can t send email using javascript or html  You need server side scripts in php or other technologies to send email

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you can use Simple Contact Form in HTML with PHP mailer  It s easy to implement in you website  You can try the demo from following link   Simple Contact Feedback Form in HTML-PHP mailer  Otherwise you can watch the demo video in following link  Youtube  Simple Contact Feedback Form in HTML-PHP mailer  When you are running in localhost  you may get following error     You can check in this link for more detailed information  Simple Contact Feedback Form in HTML with php  HTML-PHP mailer  And this is the screenshot of HTML form     And this is the main PHP coding    lt  php if   POST  submit           recipient  yourmailid domain com     Enter your mail address      subject  Contact from Website     Subject       sender   POST  name         senderEmail   POST  email         message   POST  comments         mailBody  Name   sender nEmail Address   senderEmail n nMessage   message       mail  recipient   subject   mailBody       sleep 1       header  Location http   blog antonyraphel in sample        Set here redirect page or destination page     gt

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Html by itself will not send email  You will need something that connects to a SMTP server to send an email  Hence Outlook pops up with mailto  else your form goes to the server which has a script that sends email

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As many answers in this thread already suggest it is not possible to send a mail from a static HTML page without using PHP or JS  I just wanted to add that there a some great solutions which will take your HTTP Post request generated by your form and create a mail from it  Those solutions are especially useful in case you do not want to add JS or PHP to your website  Those servers basically can be configured with a mail-server which is responsible for then sending the email  The receiver  subject  body etc  is received by the server from your HTTP S  post and then stuffed into the mail you want to send  So technically speaking it is still not possible to send mails from your HTML form but the outcome is the same  Some of these solutions can be bought as SaaS solution or you can host them by yourself  I ll just name a few but I m sure there are plenty in case anyone is interested in the technology or the service itself   https   formspark io  https   mailstatic net   opensource  https   getform io

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