1. For a form on a GeoCities site,
2. Any email address (which will use the visitor's own email client, e.g. Outlook Express) and
3. For processing the form input by either (a) Cold Fusion Processor, or (b) ASP Form Processor.

NOTE: the GeoCities ACTION code may not work. It may appear to send the form but you may never receive it. No one know why this happens at times.

For uses with your GeoCities' Alternate Email Address, use 1st code and if it doesn't work then try the 2nd code. If that doesn't work then try the 3rd code. All codes should work but with GeoCities you never know what will and will not work.

1. <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="http://us.z.webhosting.yahoo.com/forms?login=your-member-name">

2. <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="http://us.z.webhosting.yahoo.com/forms">
   <input type=hidden name="login" value="your-member-name">

3. <form method="post" action="http://geocities.yahoo.com/forms?login=your-member-name">

When a visitor to your Yahoo! GeoCities site submits the form the results will be emailed to the alternate email address you have listed in your Yahoo! Account Information.

If you wish to have the email form sent to some other email address then use this code:

<form method="post" action="mailto:SOME-EMAIL-ADDRESS" enctype="text/plain">

Note: This will work if the visitor utilizes a browser email client, e.g. Outlook, Outlook Express or Netscape. If they don't, then when the visitor clicks on the SUBMIT button all they will get is a blank email screen.

For another method of using the Mailto: please see Javascript Redirect.

This will place a subject in the email when it is sent to you.

NOTE: It is important that you name each form element.

NOTE: - This re-direction to another page, either on your site or any site on the web, is working once more with GeoCities' forms. But it works only with form email using the action="action="http://geocities.yahoo.com/forms?login=your-member-name

This will send the user to any other web page you wish ONLY IF you are using the GeoCities ACTION above. REPLACE the URL with the full url of the page you wish them to see next, e.g. http://www.geocities.com/seniorchamp1/thankyou.html.

NOTE: This will not work if you are sending the form to an email using the "mailto:" above. If you wish to use the "next_url" with a "mailto:" then please see my FORMS RE-DIRECT.

size is the length of the field displayed and maxlength is the maximum number of character that can be entered. The name can be any name you wish, e.g the next example down is for an email address and it is just like this element except the name is different.

SPECIAL NOTE: You can make any text input tag readonly, i.e. you can place anything in the form box and the user can not change it. For example, <input type=text size=5 name="total" value="100" readonly> This can be useful if you are making an order form and you are filling in the sub-totals or total spaces. There are javascript codes you can use to place text or numbers in a specific form box. Please see my Javascript Tutorial

Your E-Mail Address:

Again, size & maxlength are as described above for the text field.

Firestone South
Augusta National

The <ol> & </ol> are to make an "ordered list". It is not necessary to use these codes.I only use them so the two boxes will appear indented on new lines. Also, note that the two check boxes have the same name but different values. Thus, if both check boxes are checked, both values will be returned in the email.

If you wish to have one or more of the check boxes initially checked, then place the word, checked in the code (it can go anyplace between the < and > and should have spaces around it.

Davis Love III Arnold Palmer Greg Norman Gary Player Nick Faldo Nick Price Ernie Els Tom Lehman

The size=4 tells the browser to display 4 items in the list before using a vertical scroll bar. The multiple says that more than one item can be select and multiple size=3 says that up to 3 items can be selected.

You can pre-select one or more of the items in the list by placing a selected within the code.

Cash
Visa

Radio buttons allow only one of the items to be selected. Please note that each of the input has the same name. This is necessary in order for this element to work properly. Note that I have used a checked for Visa to show it as the default item.

Enter any comments:
Your comments here

The rows & cols define the size of the textarea box. If you want the textarea to be blank then don't put any text where I have Your comments here.

Use wrap="physical" so the text will "line-wrap", i.e when the text gets to the right side of the textarea box it will wrap down to the next line. If you don't put this in then the visitor will find themselves typing on one line until them press the ENTER KEY on their keyboard.

This should allow the visitor to browse through their hard drive and select a file to send to you. I have, however, tested this on both my own host and my GeoCities free home page and found it doesn't work either place!

I do not recommend using this, even if you could get it to work, as anyone could send you are file and it may have a virus attached to it. In fact, I strongly recommend that you never, ever open an email attachment due to the threat of a virus.

To use a graphic as the SUBMIT BUTTON use the following code:

<input type="image" src="submitbutton.gif" width=W height=H alt="SUBMIT">
Change the items in RED to represent your graphics name, width and height.

Naturally you can do the same for the CLEAR BUTTON.

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