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7/21/2015 4:23 PM
 

Hi Everyone!

I have fairly decent web skills, but more on the design side, rather than functions. It seems this should be a super simple thing to do, but for some reason I'm hitting a wall. I'm pretty sure I'm overlooking something exceedingly simple, but I'm drawing a blank. Thank you in advance!

The issue is I'm making a landing page for PayPal  donors so we can capture their information and add them to our membership lists. I'm trying to use a simple form submission, but when I click the button ... nothing happens. (the email addy is not the active one). The code is pulled directly from http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.a...

Here's the code I'm using:

<form action="MAILTO:someone@example.com" method="post" enctype="text/plain">

Name:<br>

<input type="text" name="name" value="your name"><br>

E-mail:<br>

<input type="text" name="mail" value="your email"><br>

Comment:<br>

<input type="text" name="comment" value="your comment" size="50"><br><br>

<input type="submit" value="Send">

<input type="reset" value="Reset">

</form>

 

 
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7/21/2015 7:27 PM
 

It may be due to the <form> element tag. This typically happens when people try to embed PayPal buttons into DNN. There is already a <form> tag on the page due to DNN so you will have to work  without the form tag. 

The team over at Managed.com has posted an article about this which you can find here

 - https://support.managed.com/kb/a305/h... 

 

 
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7/21/2015 11:54 PM
 

With regards to Paypal, I can get their code to work on my WordPress site, but not the DNN website I'm currently working on. I've noticed the module in the DNN site won't redirect to the PayPal in addition to it not allowing the Mailto: function. 

Thank you for the link, I'm sure I'll be needing that, as well. With luck it'll help solve both issues.

 
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7/22/2015 11:47 AM
 

Well, this wasn't really the answer I was looking for, but it actually led me to a better solution, so thank you very much! I don't know why the DNN html modules don't like forms, but that was messing up a lot of things.

I'd been told PayPal didn't have the ability to capture buyer information, but as I dug into the weeds I found what I needed. Now I can remove a couple unnecessary steps. Hooray!  

 
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7/23/2015 11:24 AM
 
One thing you could do is create a static HTML page with this form in it, and upload it to your website's root directory. Then either iframe it in or just link to the html file.
 
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