Web sites contact forms

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I see many sites with "Contact forms", with textboxes for name, surname, email, and a message. How are this information sent to the company? Is an email sent, or this information is stored in a database?

If an email is sent, could anyone tell me how to send emails with javascript without opening the email client on the user's pc?

Thanks a lot

javascript by itself can sent an email. you need to use server side technologies to do that — Dalorzo, Jun 26 '14 at 21:34
possible duplicate of [Mail through Javascript](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3690094/mail-through-javascript) — Maximillian, Jun 26 '14 at 21:34
It's not that hard. http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_form_mail — Noble Mushtak, Jun 26 '14 at 21:36
`mailto:` links like this don't work on Chrome, though. https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/7l8_exIDFY8 — Noble Mushtak, Jun 26 '14 at 21:38
@NobleMushtak That is *not* how standard 'contact forms' work; your example requires the user to have a local email client. OP is referring to a web app that sends the information from the web server itself. — admdrew, Jun 26 '14 at 21:52
Well it's not very logic that my question is downvoted while the replies are upvoted. Are people who answer stupid questions smart? — Sean, Jun 26 '14 at 22:11
@admdrew Oh...So a Python script in a server using the `email` package or something like that? — Noble Mushtak, Jun 27 '14 at 13:03

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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your only option is using a mailto in an href. This relies on the user sending the email themselves. You might be able to do something with javascript to populated the email .e.g

"mailto:"+emailTo+"&subject="+subjectText+"&body="+bodyText

try to see this Need to Send Email from HTML pages

edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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answered Jun 26 '14 at 21:37

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 26 '14 at 21:37

Generally these forms will POST the information to a server at a particular url. The maintainer will set up their server so that this url runs a script. That script may send an email and/or add the information to a database.

You could set up the server yourself, or use someone else's server that will do this for you.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 26 '14 at 21:38

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Another solution: Google Contact Forms

answered Jun 26 '14 at 21:38

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