Formspark Documentation

# Redirection

After submitting a form, the user will be redirected to a generic feedback page hosted by Formspark.

This default behavior can be overridden in multiple ways.

# Specifying a custom redirect URL

  1. Add an input of type hidden.
  2. Set the input's name to _redirect.
  3. Set the value to the URL you want to redirect users to.
<form action="https://submit-form.com/your-form-id">
  <input
    type="hidden"
    name="_redirect"
    value="https://your-website.com/thanks"
  />
  <input type="email" name="email" />
  <button type="submit">Subscribe</button>
</form>

By default, Formspark appends the submission's entries to the custom redirect URL (to its search string). This enables you to personalize your page with user-submitted data.

The above form's submissions would redirect to https://your-website.com/thanks?email=example%40email.com.

You can toggle off this behavior by adding a hidden input with the name _append and the value false.

<input type="hidden" name="_append" value="false" />

# Specifying a custom error redirect URL

Note: If you don't specify a custom error redirect URL then the configuration from _redirect (if present) will automatically be inherited.

  1. Add an input of type hidden.
  2. Set the input's name to _error.
  3. Set the value to the URL you want to redirect users to.
<form action="https://submit-form.com/your-form-id">
  <input type="hidden" name="_error" value="https://your-website.com/error" />
  <input type="email" name="email" />
  <button type="submit">Subscribe</button>
</form>

# Preventing the redirect

# Staying on the same page (without leaving it)

This is only possible with JavaScript/AJAX.

Formspark has excellent AJAX support, learn more about it here.

# Returning to the same page (after leaving it)

<!--
1. If your form is hosted at "https:/my-website.com/newsletter.html"
-->
<form action="https://submit-form.com/your-form-id">
  <!-- 2. Then you would set the "_redirect" to "https:/my-website.com/newsletter.html" -->
  <input
    type="hidden"
    name="_redirect"
    value="https:/my-website.com/newsletter.html"
  />
  <input type="email" name="email" />
  <button type="submit">Subscribe</button>
</form>

This method is based on illusion. Technically, you are not preventing the redirection.

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