Thread: html form

I'm using an html form in Chinese with charset gb2312. I have tested it a number of times (& from different computers) without problems but recently have been receiving many blank forms even though name, No and email address area validated.

Could this be triggered by a spider or robot?

Thanks

multitaskinman

If you have the fields validated through the built in validation tools, two things may be happening:

1. Your validation doesn't work. Typical for forms which names contains whitespaces or symbols. It should be a name like "contactform" or "contact_form". Underscores are allowed.

2. You are receiving either spam bot submissions or manual spam submissions by someone that has Javascript disabled on his computer.

It can't be a spider because when a spider visits your page, it doesn't actually "submit", it only opens the page, so no submission takes place.

Excellent,

Thanks for your reply. I checked the name field names, but they look ok. So it looks like it's spam.

Thanks!

multitaskinman

Not the fields names, the FORM name can break the Javascript validation if it contains whitespaces or symbols.