Hi Jenny, Following up on what Gyepi said, I was also going to suggest creating hidden form fields that would hold the values from the slider. I would have a JavaScript event that runs when a slider position is changed and then have JavaScript code that updates the value in the hidden field for that slider. jQuery may have built in methods for doing this. I am more familiar with doing this sort of thing outside of jQuery. On emailing the form data, there are pre-built email modules that will basically dump the form data into an email and send it to you. The results tend to be pretty "raw," meaning the email is not real pretty, but the data come through. formmail.pl is one example that is often available on shared hosting servers. The "action" for the form would be something like "/cgi-sys/formmail.pl". Check with your hosting company to find out if they have formmail available and if so what the path to it is. Most likely the email will need to be sent to an address that is associated with your website (e.g., me at yayforeverything.com). This is a security measure to keep formmail from being used to relay spam. The more elegant solution is to use something like php to receive the form submission, validate it and then put it into an email. This gives you full control over the look of the email and over who it is sent to, but it means learning php. It also gives you much more control over what the user sees after they submit the form. It also allows you to validate the form data before it gets sent to you, filtering out blank forms and the like. You do need to be careful when you get into php because it is possible from someone to use a poorly written php form submission system to harm your website. Regards, Bruce Hooke B.G.Hooke Consulting 401-421-3634 -----Original Message----- From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Gyepi SAM Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:26 PM To: Jenny Katz Brandoli Cc: hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] capturing jquery multiple slider data in a form submit? ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. ** If you did, we all thank you. Hi Jenny, Forms looks nice! In order to capture the slider data, you need to add hidden input types to the form, one for each slider. Then, when the slider value changes, you set the value of the associated hidden input to the slider value. When the form is submitted, the values of the hidden inputs, because they are input types, will be submitted. If you change your form action from a mailto to a script url, the form will be submitted to the script. Of course, you'll need a script on the server to handle the input. It's possible to change the process a bit with javascript but you'll ultimately need something on the server side to receive and process the data. You can store the data in a database, email it to yourself, show it to the user, all of the above, etc, etc. -Gyepi On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 05:38:38AM -0400, Jenny Katz Brandoli wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > Hi all- > > I'm a noob, trying hard to create myself a website using html and css. I've managed to create a contact/submission form with multiple sliders that looks nice, but I don't know how to capture the slider data in a form submit. In fact, I don't even know the best way to submit the form (to myself). I can create a regular html mailto: form action, but I would rather have the site just send the form data to me, rather than take users into an email program. > > The form can be seen here: > > http://www.yayforeverything.com/deadlinedom/slider/form.html > > Any and all help is greatly appreciated. I'm vastly ignorant, but I'm learning fast! > > Thanks, > Jenny > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. http://www.hidden-tech.net/members ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5351 - Release Date: 10/24/12