hi i need an email form for my site that has required fields and when the customer submits i get the email and they are taken to another page can anybody tell me how to go about this html form would be ideal

Well, a good form set-up would be something like this:

<form action="#" method="post"><fieldset>
	<legend>Fill out these forms to send an e-mail to us:</legend>

	<label for="mail">Your E-mail Address:</label>
		<input type="text" name="mail" id="mail" maxlength="48" size="50" />
	<label for="subject">Subject:</label>
		<input type="text" name="subject" id="Subject" maxlength="48" size="50" />
	<label for="letter">Message:</label>
		<input type="text" name="letter" id="letter" maxlength="48" rows="10" />
<input type="submit" value="Send E-mail" style="display: inline;" /><input type="reset" style="display: inline;">
</fieldset></form>

(this is the form I'm incorporating into my web-page anyway)

However without some kind of PHP handler (or other server side code) this form is useless.

You can also use cgi for forms, similar to my form below.

http://www.webdesignformoney.com/con...webmaster.html

You can use a mailto link as the forms action:

<form action="mailto:you@yoursite.com" method="POST" />
form stuff here
</form>

However this leaves your address visible to spam harvesters, and you would have to use some serverside scripting to make the fields required (or some javascript which people could work around if they wanted to )