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eMailing an HTML Form

theknight571

theknight571

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Here's what I was asked to do:

Send an email that contains a survey form that the user can fill out and submit.

She doesn't want me to just send a link to a form (piece of cake), she'd like the actual form to be "embedded" in the email.

I first though, no problem, I send HTML emails out all the time, so I created the page and emailed it (via PHP) and when the form arrives in my email (Outlook 2007) the form "objects" such as check boxes, and radio buttons are replaced with text.

i.e. My Submit button looks like [Submit] and my radio buttons look like:
( ) Item 1
( ) Item 2

There is no interactivity.

Is what she want's to do possible, if not is there an alternative, other than linking to a webpage (which is my fall back)?

I'm googling as well, but figured AT would know. 🙂

Thanks
 
I don't think I've ever seen an HTML e-mail with form elements, so from that I conclude that HTML e-mails can only contain a subset of HTML. I'm going with "not possible."
 
Which HTML elements you get and how they behave is entirely up to the email client being used. As there is a somewhat even distribution of email clients in use, there is no guarantee that the form is going to work properly for your target audience. Under some, it'll probably work fine. Under others, the client will display it however it wants.
 
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