# How to let people type comments on a web page?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-let-people-type-comments-on-a-web-page/483543
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 29, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-let-people-type-comments-on-a-web-page/483543 "2009-01-29T14:12:59Z")
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### Author:  [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-let-people-type-comments-on-a-web-page/483543/1 "2009-01-29T14:12:59Z")
Suppose I wanted to have a bit on a web page that says “Tell me about your mother,” and then I want to have a field into which people can type whatever they want, and submit it, and I want to be able to read what they typed later.
How do I do that?
-FrL-
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-let-people-type-comments-on-a-web-page/483543/2 "2009-01-29T14:25:10Z")
You need a form. Best thing to do is check out what your Web host offers in the way of forms. Some may have a form wizard (“click here to put a form on your web site!”) or at least a set of instructions that tells you how to set up a form so that you use built-in technology to send the results of the form to yourself in email or save it to a text file.