html form submit issue

Question

I have finished my site but my issue is when I tried to submit a contact to see if it works, I keep getting the error " Cannot GET /[email protected] ". I was hoping some can help me with what I'm doing wrong.

I have tried changing the input into a button but it still gave me an error.

<form class="form-wrap" action="[email protected]" method="Get" enctype="text/plain">
 <input type="text" placeholder="Name">
 <input type="email" placeholder="Email">
 <textarea placeholder="Message" name="Message"></textarea>
 <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send"> 
</form>

The error message below is what I keep on getting.

Cannot GET /[email protected]

• Nick Parsons: action="[email protected]" is not valid, what do you expect this to do?
• Hackinet: You need to pass a path in your action. You have passed an email.
• Deepak Singh: Action attribute in forms are meant to pass the data to a particular method on back-end on form submit event. It's your job that in that method you write the logic to send the form data to your email address.
• Bojurie: What I'm trying to accomplish is to make it so that when the submit button is pushed, I would like that information to be sent to my email. which is why I put my email address in the action perimeter. Any idea of how to go about that using HTML?

Answer 1

You need to change your action to mailto:

<form class="form-wrap" action="mailto:[email protected]" method="Get" 
enctype="text/plain">

Answer 2

Method should be post. Will receive these details. Method='post' and action="mailto:[email protected] it will work.

• Bojurie: Thank you it works perfectly now. I really appreciate your help.