How to send email from HTML contact form to gmail

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Dear All,
I want to send email from HTML form to gmail.
I want to upload attach a PDF / Word file and send it to the receipent.

Please help.

Thanks.

What I have tried:

<body>

<form method="post" action="mailto:test@gmail.com">
<table width="100%" border="1">
  <tr>
    <td><table width="30%" border="1" align="center">
      <tr>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Name</td>
        <td>
          <label>
            <input type="text" name="textfield" />
            </label>
             </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Email</td>
        <td><input type="text" name="textfield2" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td> </td>
        <td> </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td> </td>
        <td>
          <label>
            <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"/>
            </label>
        </form>
        </td>
      </tr>
    </table></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>

Posted 26-Aug-17 20:50pm

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Updated 27-Aug-17 5:21am

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2017-08-27T05:21:00

Solution 1

It cannot be done in HTML since it's just a markup language.

If you insist on doing it from the client side, you have to do it using javascript.

JavaScript Quickstart | Gmail API[^]

Posted 27-Aug-17 5:21am

Dave Kreskowiak