Contact Form HTML — Copy-Paste Working Code

<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
  <input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" />
  <input type="hidden" name="redirect"   value="https://yoursite.com/thanks" />

  <label>Name<input name="name" required /></label>
  <label>Email<input name="email" type="email" required /></label>
  <label>Message<textarea name="message" required></textarea></label>

  <input type="checkbox" name="botcheck" style="display:none" tabindex="-1" />
  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

The contact form is the most common form on the web — and the one most tutorials still get wrong. The HTML itself is simple (six lines), but the backend that receives the submission is where things break: PHP mail() is dead on modern static hosts, SMTP setup is hours of work, and spam filters are a maintenance burden.

The snippet above uses splitforms as the backend. The form POSTs to `/api/submit`, splitforms emails you the submission within seconds, the dashboard stores it permanently, and webhooks fire in parallel. No server, no SMTP credentials, no spam plugin to install. Free for 1,000 submissions per month, no credit card.

Styling is intentionally absent so you can match your brand. Wrap each input in a `<label>`, use the `placeholder` attribute for visual hint text, and style via CSS, Tailwind, or whichever system you use. The form is unopinionated about visual design — it only opinionates on semantics and submission mechanics.

For production use, add a hidden `_subject` field to customize the email subject, a hidden `redirect` field to send users to your custom thank-you page, and a CSS-hidden `botcheck` honeypot to catch bots that the AI classifier misses. The complete production-ready version is in the registration form guide above with the same pattern.

Six lines of HTML, real backend, real inbox.