Need some help with email form processor

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Hey guys,
I've found a mailform processor on google, but I dont know how to add a big text field, instead of the small ones I get when I use the mail-maniac example;

<form name="formname" method="post" action="http://www.[mailform processor].com" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="mailto" value="mailto(at)address.com">
<input type="hidden" name="from" value="mailfrom(at)address.com">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Subject line">
<input type="hidden" name="fromname" value="Your name">
<input type="hidden" name="goto" value="http://www.thankyoupage.com">
<input type="text" name="sometextfield"><br />
<input type="text" name="anothertextfield"><br />
<input type="file" name="filename"><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"><br /><br/>
<a href="http://www.[mailform processor].com" target="_blank"><font size="1" face="Verdana">[mailform processor], free HTML email form processor</font></a>
</form>

I get two small textboxes, but I need one big textbox. How do I manage to get this textbox?

grz

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[Dave]

It should be pretty straightforward. Just replace the two lines:

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<input type="text" name="sometextfield"><br />
<input type="text" name="anothertextfield"><br />


with this one:

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<input type="text" name="sometextfield" size="30[or your preferred textfield width in characters]" maxlength="1024[or some other maximum length in characters]" /><br />


Enter your preferred values for size and maxlength in place of the text in square brackets.

(I've deleted the URL of the mailform processor and the link to it from your posting above as our guidelines don't allow newcomers to post links. Nothing personal, but we've had too many people joining up just to promote their own site, product or service - so we have to take a tough line. )

[Savannah_Alan]

If you want a multi-line text box, then you should use the <textarea /> tag rather than the <input /> tag. You can set the rows and columns like this:

<textarea name="txtName" cols="45" rows="7">Default text goes in here</textarea>

You query the form parameters as you would a normal text box on the other end like this:

(ASP Version)
PassedValue=Request("txtName")

(PHP Version)
$PassedValue=$_REQUEST['txtName']

Alan.

[Dave]

If you want a multi-line text box, then you should use the <textarea /> tag rather than the <input /> tag.

D'oh! Silly me. Thanks, Alan.