Q186 Is there any way of sending an email using a form and moving to another page at the same time?

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Q186 Is there any way of sending an email using a form and moving to another page at the same time?

The following will change the location 5 seconds after the form submission:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"><!--
function settimer() {
    setTimeout('location.href="dummy.html"',5000);
}
//--></SCRIPT>

<FORM ACTION="mailto:someone@somewhere.com" METHOD="POST" ENCTYPE="text/plain" onSubmit="settimer()">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT">
</FORM>

Note the above does not work in Internet Explorer 3, as it does not support the mailto: action.

Feedback on 'Q186 Is there any way of sending an email using a form and moving to another page at the same time?'

• June 01, 2002 at 22:07:41: C. V. DiGiovanna
• May 19, 2002 at 14:56:44: Melanie Hopkins
• January 25, 2002 at 05:47:09: Nathan Pearce
• 16:33:40 3/28/00 Darren Line