Send Form by Email - textarea not included

[Rich57]

The web form on my contact page (http://www.rich57.co.uk/contact.html) sends form data via email when the Submit button is clicked. However, nothing in the textarea (Your Comments) is sent in the email. I've checked this in Firefox/Thunderbird and IE6/OE.

Can you suggest why the textarea field is ignored?

Richard

[blain]

first off validate your page, then read this

[dAEk]

The textarea does not appear to have a name attribute set.

[Rich57]

first off validate your page, then read this

At first I thought "I did validate my page - the icon's there to prove it!" However, then I remembered that I did an accessibility pass on the page afterwards and didn't re-check it.

Validation fails due to incorrect use of <label><fieldset>...</fieldset></label>
labels now assigned to individual radio button input elements. Validation passes.

The textarea does not appear to have a name attribute set.

I agree, and this does seem to be a difference between the textarea fields and others on this page. W3Schools says the name attribute is optional but I'm reviewing how I got here.

Name now assigned to textarea (same as id). Comments are now inserted into Thunderbird email from Firefox, but not from IE6. I can live with this, but can my IE6 visitors? Perhaps a subtle note like "IE6 visitors please email me direct".

Thanks guys.

[blain]

Rich, have another read of that site I linked you, and shed those tables.
Also have a look at my previous thread here too