I have a number of sites that have HTML forms that pass data that is then processed by ASP to send text based emails. This works fine

I now wish to use the same forms, but now send HTML email, formatted using the input HTML form. I can write the script manually to read my forms and generate my emails. I find this time consuming and a pain in the behind as some of my forms are rather long. Has anyone found an easy way or a tool that will take an HTML form and quickly generate the body of my email for my ASP code, with colours, formatting and data?

Hi there,

I am not aware of any tools that do that automatically, but writing a generic engine that does this for you shouldn't be too hard.

If you stick to a strict naming scheme, it's quite easy to use a loop that iterates through the Request.Form collection, extracting the form's fields, applies some formatting and then generates an e-mail. You could even include some hidden fields that determine layout, addressees, etc on a form to from basis.

If you want / need some specific help with this, please post a message here.

Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
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jmccann,

You can email the entire page (including the form) using the XMLHTTP object,
and with a little imagination it would not be difficult to extract the form from the page.
By locating the beginning and end of the form with instr()
and use mid() to extract the html.

Have a look at this article from 4Guys from rolla
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/110100-1.shtml

Rod



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