Forms across several pages

I want a form (questionnaire) on my website which includes 8 fairly big
questions. They look better split across 3 pages but I don't know how to
write it so that I get one email report for the 8 questions rather than a
seperate report for each page. Can anyone help please?

Many thanks
David

"dave" <davidk (AT) standrewsgolfingsociety (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

I want a form (questionnaire) on my website which includes 8 fairly
big questions.

Big in what sense?

They look better split across 3 pages but I don't know
how to write it so that I get one email report for the 8 questions
rather than a seperate report for each page.

_Look better_? Why would that matter? Surely for forms, functionality and
usability is what matters.

You cannot divide a form across pages. You can write a form handler that
generates a new form, carrying the first data set forward in hidden fields
or otherwise. But that's really programming, not HTML. And it's not useful
to do just for esthetics.

I'd suggest taking a look at some primers on forms, e.g. those mentioned
at http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/

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Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html

Thanks. Very useful...the link that you provided has led me to form-o-matic
which may prove useful.

The qustions are big in the sense that they are long and complex. This form
is for research into climate change.

When I say 'look better', I mean that when all questions are on one page, it
looks intimidating because the page is so big.

I certainly don't want to get into programming, being a relative newbie.

Anyway, you've given me a lead. Thanks
D

Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela (AT) cs (DOT) tut.fi> wrote

"dave" <davidk (AT) standrewsgolfingsociety (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

I want a form (questionnaire) on my website which includes 8 fairly
big questions.

Big in what sense?

They look better split across 3 pages but I don't know
how to write it so that I get one email report for the 8 questions
rather than a seperate report for each page.

_Look better_? Why would that matter? Surely for forms, functionality and
usability is what matters.

You cannot divide a form across pages. You can write a form handler that
generates a new form, carrying the first data set forward in hidden fields
or otherwise. But that's really programming, not HTML. And it's not useful
to do just for esthetics.

I'd suggest taking a look at some primers on forms, e.g. those mentioned
at http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/

--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html