Order of input fields in forms

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Daniel James Gullo

I have created a form for submitting genealogy information to me via
Email. I use a table with two columns to organize the form fields which
works great aesthetically. The order in which I would like to see the
information in the Email is 'down and then over', however, I am
receiving the data in the 'over and then down' format. There is no
problem receiving the data at all, other than in presentation. I tried
to change the tab order, hoping that this would be a way of ordinating
the fields.

Also, I would like some general information on formating the form
results prior to sending or after receiving in Outlook, something like a
view template which takes the field data from the Email and presents it
nicely in Outlook.

Any help would be much appreciated.
 
When using the FP Form Handler, you have not control of the data order in
the email. Textarea (scrolling text box) fields will always appear last.

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FrontPage provides very little control over the format of
e-mail it creates. It provides no capability at all for
sending HTML-based mail.

You can get much more creative and precise by using the
CDONTS.NewMail or CDO.Message objects, but this requires
programming in ASP. In ASP.NET, you can get similar
results by using classes in the System.Web.Mail namespace.
For more info, search for these names on
msdn.microsoft.com.

Jim Buyens
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Thanks. The problem is that Yahoo! is my hosting service and they don't
support .asp. Initially, I had wanted to dump the data to a DB using an
..asp form instead.
 
Daniel James Gullo said:
Thanks. The problem is that Yahoo! is my hosting service and they don't
support .asp. Initially, I had wanted to dump the data to a DB using an
.asp form instead.
Click to expand...

Bummer. In that case, you'll have to investigate any tools Yahoo!
offers for sending custom mail, change providers, or live with what
you have.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
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