i need help with html email form?

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Paige

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i am trying to put an email form onto my website and can't seem to get it to work.
when i hit the submit button, a separate email window opens up with my default email provider. i do not want this, as it shows my website readers my email address (my email has my last name in it). i would like the submit button to send off the email from there (maybe even have the form disappear afterwards with a "thank you!" in its place?)

if you could help me, that'd be great. this is what i have so far:

<FORM action="my email address here" method="post">
<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="90%">
<TR>
<TD><TEXTAREA name="name" cols="18" wrap="virtual" rows="1">name
</TEXTAREA>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><TEXTAREA name="email" cols="18" wrap="virtual" rows="1">email
</TEXTAREA>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><TEXTAREA name="comment" cols="18" wrap="virtual" rows="10">comment
</TEXTAREA>
</TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD>
<INPUT type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
<INPUT type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset">
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</FORM>
 
You can't send it purely in html without having a user's email client open up to send it. You'd have to post the form to another page which sends it via PHP or ASP or a server side scripting language that handles the email to you without showing the user what it is that it is doing.
 
The value you specify for your form's action attribute needs to be a script on your server. This script will be the broker that takes the input and composes the e-mail (thus hiding your real e-mail address)
Google "php email script" or something to that extent.
 
The value you specify for your form's action attribute needs to be a script on your server. This script will be the broker that takes the input and composes the e-mail (thus hiding your real e-mail address)
Google "php email script" or something to that extent.
 
The value you specify for your form's action attribute needs to be a script on your server. This script will be the broker that takes the input and composes the e-mail (thus hiding your real e-mail address)
Google "php email script" or something to that extent.
 
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