lets say i have a form on page form.html and i users to be able to fill out that form and have the outcome of the form onto outcome.html, whats the code for that?

and whats the code for the outcome page?

You need to read up on PHP, because you cant do that with HTML alone.

Heres a good starter tutorial:http://w3schools.com/php/php_get.asp

A better start is the Zend 101 tutorial for PHP.

However, you don't have to do it with PHP. You can also do it with ASP.

oh i thought you could do that with html too, well im in the process of learning php, thanks anyways.

that would be PHP, you can get an example at http://www.tizag.com/phpT/forms.php

This won't display any information about anything whatsoever, but to do it with HTML, you'll need some php in 'outcome.html' and then you'd do this in form.html

<form action="outcome.html"></form>

*** PLAIN HTML IS POSSIBLE *****

HOW
+You need to use the 'get' method in the form.html

+You then use the location.search in the Javascript to then get the form data.

Notes
-You will then need to use Javascript, to both split the location.search string down into its different variables
-The GET method is limited in two ways, there is a limit of 255 chrs, which includes the URL and etc.



HOWEVER,
PHP would be best.

<form method="post" enctype="text/plain" action='mailto:your email address'>
<input type="hidden" name="To" value="your subject for email">
<input type="submit" value="Submit"><img src="spacer.gif" width=5 height=1 alt="spacer"><input type="text" name="question:" size="50" maxlength="100"><br><br>
Put question # 2 here:<br>
<input type="reset" value="Try again"></form>

Simple form sumbit. But for after you sumbit the form and it say something you need to use PHP

Sorry, u gotta learn a whole new language. Its a simple one though. PHP

It's really not difficult with PHP. Just use $_GET and $_POST.

To build the output, just use echo() to output the variables as needed.

This HTML form example should tell you to either use ASP or PHP - Otherwise you're getting over complicated.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

Originally Posted by TRANZIT JIM

*** PLAIN HTML IS POSSIBLE *****...u then use the location.search in the Javascript to then get the form data.

Javascript != HTML.

Originally Posted by JuliaG

<form method="post" enctype="text/plain" action='mailto:your email address'>
<input type="hidden" name="To" value="your subject for email">
<input type="submit" value="Submit"><img src="spacer.gif" width=5 height=1 alt="spacer"><input type="text" name="question:" size="50" maxlength="100"><br><br>
Put question # 2 here:<br>
<input type="reset" value="Try again"></form>

Simple form sumbit. But for after you sumbit the form and it say something you need to use PHP

Very helpfull post! thnks!