I’m unable to find the contact form’s backend email in Inspect Element.
I’m trying to find the backend email address configured for a website’s contact form using Inspect Element/Developer Tools. I’ve checked the page source and searched through the available HTML, but I’m unable to locate the email address or identify where the form submissions are being sent.
Could someone please guide me on where I should look or which files/settings I should check to find the form’s destination email?
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(Front–end tools won't give you answers for how the back–end service does things.)
It's sent to the form action="" URL — what the site operator does with the content there is up to the backend code, if they store it in a file, database, send out emails or make an API call to a service handling some of that for them. The destination is usually held in the backend configuration.
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You’re right. On some websites, the email address does appear in the Inspect Element/front-end code. I’ve also shared a screenshot showing an example.
This is not an element used in form submissions. It is page content — this plain text doesn't influence how the form submission is handled when received. You can have any addresses published, and still handle form data in a completely different way. If you want to learn more about how the documents work, check out developer.mozilla.org/about that has tutorials about authoring web content.
Got it, thanks you! Appreciate the clarification and the link!
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