1. Goals: Make the Contact Form Work

Contact Form

Yesterday, we built an upgraded version of our blog website that uses Bootstrap for styling. The only part of the website that doesn't work is the contact form on the Contact Page. This is because we need to learn about submitting HTML forms and catching the submitted data in our Flask server.

HTML Forms in Flask

So the goal for today is to understand how HTML forms are submitted and how to use the data from the form to actually send an email to ourselves with the data submitted by the user.

1. HTML Forms Revision - Creating a Form from Scratch

• Create a new Flask application and serve the index.html page. Add an <h1> to the index.html so that you can tell if it's working.