Email Subject line

Customize your notification email subject

subject

There are two ways you can setup Email Subject.

1. Pre-defined Subject

You can add a pre-defined subject by adding a form input with type="hidden" along with your subject in value. See the code below.

<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="New Submission from Web3Forms">

2. User Generated Subject

In this case, the subject can be filled by the website visitor. For that, you can use an input type="text". See Code below.

<input type="text" name="subject" />

The Name attribute must be called subject

3. Custom Subject with User Input Value

You can also customize the subject value to include user submitted value such as their first name. This will be easier to manage in emails when you have multiple emails coming from different users.

Below is a javascript example for creating custom subject. For react, check this example.

const form = document.getElementById('form');
const result = document.getElementById('result');

form.addEventListener('submit', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    
    const formData = new FormData(form);
    
    // Get the name input value
    const name = formData.get('name');
    
    // Create a custom subject
    const subject = `${name} sent a message from website`;
    
    // Append the custom subject to the form data
    formData.append('subject', subject);
    
    const object = Object.fromEntries(formData);
    const json = JSON.stringify(object);
    
    result.innerHTML = "Please wait...";

    fetch('https://api.web3forms.com/submit', {
        method: 'POST',
        headers: {
            'Content-Type': 'application/json',
            'Accept': 'application/json'
        },
        body: json
    })
    .then(async (response) => {
        let json = await response.json();
        if (response.status == 200) {
            result.innerHTML = json.message;
        } else {
            console.log(response);
            result.innerHTML = json.message;
        }
    })
    .catch(error => {
        console.log(error);
        result.innerHTML = "Something went wrong!";
    })
    .then(function() {
        form.reset();
        setTimeout(() => {
            result.style.display = "none";
        }, 3000);
    });
});