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Hey everybody,

I have been recently looking for a form that sends the content a user fills out to my e-mail address. I'm currently using Jotform (http://www.jotform.com), but I'm having problems when I place their code on my site (the boxes are too close together).

If somebody could help me out with this I would appreciate it!

Thanks,

W00tbeer1

Well, if you want to try doing this by yourself, please know first of all that you're going to need more than just HTML for it to work. Your HTML form code is just what the user interfaces with--you need scripting such as PHP running on your server to actually process the form data.

It's not feasible to try and teach you all of this here, beacause from your question i can tell you probably aren't very experienced at basic HTML as yet, so you can't move on to a scripting language like PHP until you fix that problem. I can only give advice.

Use google to find HTML tutorials, and learn~! Google 'CSS' as well and learn that; THEN you can move on to PHP perhaps.
Jut in case I assumed wrongly about your level of experience, im sorry. I'm just going by the question you asked~ good luck and have fun learning!

Well I hopr you got your form together...good luck

Actually, you could use jotform, and then edit the raw html to what you want it to be. Let jotform take care of the side scripting... ^^

What's jotform? It sounds like one of those form services. Well, some of them are good. That could work too.

mybe its same kind of script

dramaprincessxox wrote:What's jotform? It sounds like one of those form services. Well, some of them are good. That could work too.

Its better to host your own code on your site. Third party scripts have their side effects and security leaks.

either learn PHP and HTML and make your own form ( recommended )
or just edit the HTML code that comes with Jotform .... its not that complicated....

i search a very good tutorial of css and php ... im good with html and all those things but i want to learn php and css can you explain what you can do with php?

wait, so you just want the form to be coded out of HTML? Well, that's the least efficient in coding a form. I'd say go with a combination of PHP and Ajax. If you want me to code one out for you, shoot me a PM!

it isnt hard to make a form in html? you can search it at google if you need..

isn't it easier to send the html form to a email?

give your email or ..?

Just make a HTML form and submit to a PHP script which collects all the variables, and sends an email to the desired email account in a well-formatted text/html. If you know PHP, then its even easier, as then you don't need to depend on 3rd party scripts for such small purposes.

If thinks are too close together, simply add 'style: "margin:[x]px;"', where [x] is the number of pixels you want to space them out (keep in mind, though, this will space it out on all sides, so if you apply it to two things, the distance they are apart is actually 2[x]).