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Popup Contact Form (Modal Widget)

A popup contact widget that floats in the corner of your site, opens a centred modal, and closes on Escape. Zero dependencies — vanilla JS, ~80 lines.

1,000/mo free·no card·works on any host
form.htmlhtml22 lines
01<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
02 <input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY">
03 <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="New contact form submission">
04
05 <label for="name">Full name *</label>
06 <input id="name" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Jane Builder" required>
07 <label for="email">Email *</label>
08 <input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="jane@example.com" required>
09 <label for="phone">Phone *</label>
10 <input id="phone" type="tel" name="phone" placeholder="+1 415 555 0142" required>
11 <label for="message">Message *</label>
12 <textarea id="message" name="message" placeholder="How can we help?" required></textarea>
13
14 <!-- honeypot — bots fill every field -->
15 <input type="checkbox" name="botcheck" style="display:none" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off">
16
17 <button type="submit">Send</button>
18</form>
19
20<p style="margin-top:12px;font-size:11px;color:#888;text-align:right">
21 Powered by <a href="https://splitforms.com" style="color:#888;text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noopener">splitforms</a>
22</p>
1,000
submissions / mo, free
4
fields, ready to ship
5
code outputs
60s
from copy to inbox
Popup Contact Form (Modal Widget) — example splitforms template with submissions inbox
§ 01Why it mattersthe qualifying-fields argument

Putting a contact form on every page hurts conversion — it's noise. Putting a single 'Contact us' button in the corner of every page that opens a modal is the pattern Intercom popularised. You don't need Intercom's $99/month for it. The widget is 80 lines of HTML, CSS, and JS, and the form posts to the same splitforms endpoint you'd use anywhere else.

✦ at a glance
  • Basic contact form · 4 fields
  • HTML, JS, React, PHP, cURL outputs
  • One POST endpoint, no SDK
  • Honeypot + classifier, no CAPTCHA
§ 02Live previewinteractive · sandboxed · no key required

See exactly what your visitors see — and you’ll receive.

Left: the rendered form, fully interactive in a sandboxed iframe. Right: the email and dashboard view that lands the moment a visitor submits.

preview · popup-contact-formlocalhost:3000
✦ what you’ll see in your inbox

Every submission becomes an email plus a dashboard row. The fields below are the exact payload your form will send. Reply-to is wired to the visitor’s email so hitting reply goes back to them.

dashboard · new submission14ms · 200 OK
SUBJECT · New contact form submission
Full name
Maya Iyer
Email
maya@studio71.co
Phone
+1 415 555 0142
Message
Loved your last open house in Hayes — looking for similar with parking. Pre-approved through Wells Fargo.

Iframe is sandboxed — submit doesn’t actually fire. Get your access key to wire it up live.

§ 03Three steps3 steps · ~60 seconds

Generate, embed, receive.

Three actions stand between you and your first lead. None of them require a backend, a database, or a CAPTCHA library.

STEP 01GENERATE

Paste the widget HTML once

It's a self-contained block — anchor button, overlay, modal card, and a tiny script. Drop it into your site's footer template so every page has it.

Create your form
key=sk_live_••••••••
STEP 02EMBED

Wire it to your access key

One line — replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY in the form's hidden input. That's the only personalisation.

snippethtml
<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
  …
</form>
STEP 03RECEIVE

Customise the trigger

The trigger is a regular button — change the icon, label, or position with CSS. The modal styling is yours to fork. We give you a working starting point.

inbox · 1 newjust now
FROM contact@yoursite.com
New contact form submission
Maya Iyer maya@studio71.co
Loved your last open house in Hayes — looking for similar with parking. Pre-approved through Wells Fargo.
§ 04Copy & ship5 languages · same endpoint

Five outputs. One backend.

HTML by default. Click open the language you ship in — every variant POSTs to the same /api/submit endpoint.

01HTMLform.html22 lines
<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
  <input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY">
  <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="New contact form submission">

  <label for="name">Full name *</label>
  <input id="name" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Jane Builder" required>
  <label for="email">Email *</label>
  <input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="jane@example.com" required>
  <label for="phone">Phone *</label>
  <input id="phone" type="tel" name="phone" placeholder="+1 415 555 0142" required>
  <label for="message">Message *</label>
  <textarea id="message" name="message" placeholder="How can we help?" required></textarea>

  <!-- honeypot — bots fill every field -->
  <input type="checkbox" name="botcheck" style="display:none" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off">

  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

<p style="margin-top:12px;font-size:11px;color:#888;text-align:right">
  Powered by <a href="https://splitforms.com" style="color:#888;text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noopener">splitforms</a>
</p>
02JavaScriptform.js38 lines
<form id="lf-form">
  <label for="name">Full name *</label>
  <input id="name" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Jane Builder" required>
  <label for="email">Email *</label>
  <input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="jane@example.com" required>
  <label for="phone">Phone *</label>
  <input id="phone" type="tel" name="phone" placeholder="+1 415 555 0142" required>
  <label for="message">Message *</label>
  <textarea id="message" name="message" placeholder="How can we help?" required></textarea>
  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

<p style="margin-top:12px;font-size:11px;color:#888;text-align:right">
  Powered by <a href="https://splitforms.com" style="color:#888;text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noopener">splitforms</a>
</p>

<script>
  document.getElementById('lf-form').addEventListener('submit', async (e) => {
    e.preventDefault();
    const data = new FormData(e.target);
    data.set('access_key', 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY');
    data.set('subject', 'New contact form submission');

    const res = await fetch('https://splitforms.com/api/submit', {
      method: 'POST',
      body: data,
      headers: { Accept: 'application/json' },
    });

    const json = await res.json();
    if (json.success) {
      e.target.reset();
      alert('Sent!');
    } else {
      alert('Error: ' + (json.message || 'Try again'));
    }
  });
</script>
03React / Next.jsForm.tsx53 lines
'use client';

import { useState, type FormEvent } from 'react';

export default function BasicForm() {
  const [status, setStatus] = useState<'idle' | 'sending' | 'sent' | 'error'>('idle');

  async function onSubmit(e: FormEvent<HTMLFormElement>) {
    e.preventDefault();
    setStatus('sending');

    const data = new FormData(e.currentTarget);
    data.set('access_key', 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY');
    data.set('subject', 'New contact form submission');

    const res = await fetch('https://splitforms.com/api/submit', {
      method: 'POST',
      body: data,
      headers: { Accept: 'application/json' },
    });

    const json = await res.json();
    setStatus(json.success ? 'sent' : 'error');
    if (json.success) e.currentTarget.reset();
  }

  if (status === 'sent') return <p>Thanks — we&rsquo;ll be in touch.</p>;

  return (
    <>
    <form onSubmit={onSubmit}>
      <label htmlFor="name">Full name *</label>
      <input id="name" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Jane Builder" required />
      <label htmlFor="email">Email *</label>
      <input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="jane@example.com" required />
      <label htmlFor="phone">Phone *</label>
      <input id="phone" type="tel" name="phone" placeholder="+1 415 555 0142" required />
      <label htmlFor="message">Message *</label>
      <textarea id="message" name="message" placeholder="How can we help?" required />

      <button type="submit" disabled={status === 'sending'}>
        {status === 'sending' ? 'Sending…' : 'Send'}
      </button>

      {status === 'error' && <p>Something went wrong. Try again.</p>}
    </form>

      <p style={{ marginTop: 12, fontSize: 11, color: '#888', textAlign: 'right' }}>
        Powered by <a href="https://splitforms.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style={{ color: '#888', textDecoration: 'none' }}>splitforms</a>
      </p>
    </>
  );
}
04PHPsubmit.php28 lines
<?php
// Drop into a PHP page. Receives a form POST and proxies it to splitforms.com.
// Useful when you want to add server-side validation or rate limiting.

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST') {
    $allowed = ['name', 'email', 'phone', 'message'];
    $payload = ['access_key' => 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY'];
    $payload['subject'] = 'New contact form submission';

    foreach ($allowed as $f) {
        if (isset($_POST[$f])) $payload[$f] = $_POST[$f];
    }

    $ch = curl_init('https://splitforms.com/api/submit');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($payload));
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Accept: application/json']);
    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    $status   = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
    curl_close($ch);

    header('Content-Type: application/json');
    http_response_code($status);
    echo $response;
    exit;
}
?>
05cURLtest.sh8 lines
curl -X POST https://splitforms.com/api/submit \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -d "access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" \
  -d "subject=New contact form submission" \
  -d "name=Jane Builder" \
  -d "email=jane@example.com" \
  -d "phone=+15555555555" \
  -d "message=Hello from cURL" 

Replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY with the key from your dashboard. That’s the only edit.

§ 06FAQ4 answered

Things people ask before they ship.

Direct answers, no marketing fluff. Missing one? Email hello@splitforms.com.

01Can I use this with Tailwind CSS or my framework?
The CSS in the example is vanilla but you can rewrite it in Tailwind — the structure (trigger button + overlay div + modal div) is what matters. We ship a Tailwind variant inside the dashboard once you sign up.
02How do I open the popup from a different button?
The 'open' trigger is an event listener on a button with id='lf-open' — duplicate that ID on any other button (header, footer, in-content link) and clicking it opens the same modal.
03Does the modal close on outside click?
Yes — clicking the overlay outside the card closes it. Pressing Escape also closes. Both are accessibility wins; both are wired up in the example script.
04Is this mobile-friendly?
Yes. The modal scales to viewport width on small screens and the trigger button stays in the bottom-right corner where it doesn't block content.
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