Mailto Stack
Generates a predefined mailto email from a flexible form. No page, or server PHP required.
Overview
Generates a predefined mailto link, from a flexible form. No page, or server PHP required.
The primary reason for using this stack would be for people who's servers do not have PHP installed. Servers without PHP are unable to send forms in the normal way, so generating a mailto link for your visitor is a great alternative.
There is of course no reason you can't use the form anyway. It's a great for:
• Seeing exactly which page the email was posted from.
• Send the email to multiple email addresses.
• Having a concise relevant predefined email from your visitor.
• It's secure.
• It looks great.
What's a mailto link?
A mailto link when clicked pops open the visitors default email client (Mail on a Mac for example), and populates the email ready to send. Try one of the demos below to see it in action.
Demo
Live demos of the stack in action.
Default demo. Please fill in the form and click "Send Mail" to see the mailto link the form can generate for you.
DEMO 2: You can show or hide any of the available fields, as well as re-label the field titles and button text.
Custom Controls
A comprehensive explanation of each of the stacks custom settings.
This is the email address the visitors email will be sent to.
You may add further email addresses here for the visitors email to be sent to. Separate multiple email address here with a comma.
As above, but a BCC email address is hidden from all other parties CC'd into the email.
There are small, medium, and large choices here.
Colour pickers to change the button background and text colours for both the normal and hover states.
You choose which fields you want to show.
This is a placeholder text in each of the visible fields respectively.
The form will never be wider than the width you set here.
When the form in narrower than it's parent container, you can choose it's alignment within it's parent container here.
More FAQ
Other Important information relevant to this stack.
Download.
After purchase, you will be sent an email containing a download link for the stack.
Download the zip file from the link, and unzip it to reveal the stack inside.
You should now see the stack as a logo style icon.
Normal installation.
Double click the un-zipped stack file (the one that looks like a piece of lego).
This will launch Rapidweaver if it was not already running, to automatically install the stack.
Rapidweaver handles the install process from here. Guiding you through a couple of simple clicks to complete the installation.
Re-start Rapidweaver to ensure the installation is complete.
You will now see the new stack in the Stacks plugin library.
Installation where more than one version of Rapidweaver is installed.
Sometimes if there is more than one version of Rapidweaver installed on your system, the double click method launches the wrong version of Rapidweaver to install the stack. To ensure the it is installed into the version you want to install to, you can, instead of double clicking the stack, just drag and drop it onto the appropriate Rapidweaver app icon in your dock at the bottom of your screen.
This will launch Rapidweaver if it was not already running, to automatically install the stack.
Rapidweaver handles the install process from here. Guiding you through a couple of simple clicks to complete the installation.
Re-start Rapidweaver to ensure the installation is complete.
You will now see the new stack in the Stacks plugin library.
There are no known compatibility issue at this time.
Tested in all major browsers, on desktop and mobile devices, without issue.
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