I am making a help file (.chm) for a project I am working on, but am having trouble with an HTML form element. What I want the form to be able to do is send an email so users can contact me about bugs, quetions, etc, but when I try the 'Submit' button, it notifies me that I am about to send the email, then crashes the Microsoft HTML Help Executable.
Here is my code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<HTML>
<TITLE> Contact me </TITLE>
<BODY>
<IMG SRC="banner.png" WIDTH="800" HEIGHT="160" ALIGN="RIGHT" ALT="Banner">
<HR WIDTH="600" HEIGHT="5" ALIGN="RIGHT">
<P>
<H2 ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT FACE="Trebuchet MS">Contact me</FONT></H2>
</P>
<P><H4><FONT FACE="Trebuchet MS">Please enter the following details</FONT></H4>
<FONT FACE="Trebuchet MS">
<FORM ENCTYPE="text/plain" METHOD="POST" ACTION="mailto:[email protected]">
Your name: <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="Name">
<P>Details:
<TEXTAREA ROWS="10" COLS="50" NAME="Details"></TEXTAREA>
</P>
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Submit">
</FORM>
</FONT>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Sorry about my terrible formatting, but hopefully you get the idea.
I have found that when I launch this in Google Chrome as a regular HTML document, it works fine and sends the email perfectly, but when I try it in Internet Explorer as an HTML, it crashes (typical). What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance
I don't think it's actually 100% possible, nor would I recommend it if it were.
I think a much better way would be to provide a link to a Contact Me page on your site, or simply provide your email in the body of the CHM.
General Points
Use
<label>elements when referring to form labels, example:This adds the nice bonus of making the "Your Name:" text clickable as well!