I still dont know how to make a contact form that lets people send me messages. I know about node mailer but i think thats more for sending messages, not really what im looking for. can anyone help me out?
also I have gmail
If you want html, try this (replace joe@ex… with your email, set the subject to something, or remove it) 
<a href="mailto:joe@example.com?subject=feedback">email me</a>
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If you want a desktop text editor, I recommend Atom, btw. Add Autocomplete+ to get stuff like the mail anchor! (type “mailto” if you have it)
doesnt work. maybe its something to do with gmail?
also vscode forever
I made mine with php. Use a PHP e-mail contact form guide plus some w3schools pages on sanitizing form content. Then you just use an HTML form tag.
I don’t have the original PHP contact form that I used. If you’ve learned JS, PHP is very similar, and you don’t need to study PHP really to follow the guide.
One problem with using HTML tags mail:to is that some users won’t have an e-mail client setup. For example, when I click mailto: tags in Google Chrome, nothing happens.
Actually I used w3schools for this: https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_form_validation.asp
Here is my latest version from that tutorial:
disclaimer, this is a basic contact link, not a form, and it may have been the missing double slashes causing the issue.
<a href="mailto://youremail@gmail.com?subject=subjecthere">Email me</a>