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Anonymous
July 26, 2006
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Trying to mail user contents I type into textarea

  • July 26, 2006
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Okay I have a form with a textarea that allows me to type content. Whatever I type into the textarea named "mailcontent", I want to mail that to someone. When I load this page with the form, I keep getting this error message:

element MAILCONTENT is undefined in FORM.

What am I doing wrong here? I'm attatching the code. Don't worry about the #confirmdelete.EmailAddress# as this works b/c I have another form on this page as well.


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Remove the CFMAIL from your page and put it in coop_deleted_sendmail.cfm. The sequence of events (1) the user enters the information into the textarea, (2) user clicks the submit button, (3) coop_deleted_sendmail.cfm loads and processes he CFMAIL tag, at which time it can see and use the value for Form.mailcontent.

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Anonymous
July 26, 2006
You're right. Thanks.
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Anonymous
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July 26, 2006
Remove the CFMAIL from your page and put it in coop_deleted_sendmail.cfm. The sequence of events (1) the user enters the information into the textarea, (2) user clicks the submit button, (3) coop_deleted_sendmail.cfm loads and processes he CFMAIL tag, at which time it can see and use the value for Form.mailcontent.
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Anonymous
July 26, 2006
Okay, I know how to do that. I was trying to do it all on this page though. I guess that's just not possible. I thought I could enter information in the form and mail at the same time.
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Anonymous
July 26, 2006
No can do. Think of what is happening. ColdFusion processes the page on the server before the page is sent to the user.
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