I created my website, www.kdscope.com , in FP 2003, and published it to my
host, Register.com. They are running Unix OS and Apache server. My
"Contact Us" form seems to work OK for Internet Explorer based browsers (IE,
Avant), but seems to be hit-or-miss for Netscape, and doesn't work at all
with Firefox. I receive no error messages, but the IE based browsers
display a confirmation page, and the non-IE based browsers launch a blank
Outlook Express (My default mail handler) message page.
I am using:
FP 2003
Windows XP Pro

Hello Ken,

There are a couple of things wrong with your contact page:

1. You have an empty onSubmit="" method on your form tag. This might cause a
browser to function incorrectly, so I'd suggest removing it.

2. Your "Submit Comments" button is wrapped inside a hyperlink, this is what
causes other browsers to open your email client:

<a href="mailto:kdscopes [at] cox.net?subject=Inquiry From Web Site"><input
type="submit" value="Submit Comments"></a>

I hope this helps!

--
Robert [MSFT]
http://blogs.msdn.com/robert_mcmurray/

Hi, Bob,
Well, I tried your suggestions. For the "Sumbit Comments" buton, I moved the
</a> up to the end of the line before the input button. That seems to have
fixed the problem. Man, what a subtle change. Thanks a lot. I probably
wouldn't have found that in my lifetime.

As to the empty onSubmit="" method on the form tag, it's not empty on my
computer. It gets changed in the published process, and there doesn't seem
to be anything I can do to prevent it. As long as the form works now, I
won't worry about it.

Thanks again

Ken

"Robert McMurray [MSFT]" <robmcm [at] microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:O4AFOertGHA.4748 [at] TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hello Ken,
>
> There are a couple of things wrong with your contact page:
>
> 1. You have an empty onSubmit="" method on your form tag. This might cause
> a browser to function incorrectly, so I'd suggest removing it.
>
> 2. Your "Submit Comments" button is wrapped inside a hyperlink, this is
> what causes other browsers to open your email client:
>
> <a href="mailto:kdscopes [at] cox.net?subject=Inquiry From Web Site"><input
> type="submit" value="Submit Comments"></a>
>
> I hope this helps!
>
> --
> Robert [MSFT]
> http://blogs.msdn.com/robert_mcmurray/
>