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Hard Fail Form

A contact form that tells the visitor when the message did not send.

R450

Once. Yours to keep

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The shape of it, not a screenshot

What it is

Most contact forms show a thank-you message whether or not the message arrived. This one waits for the response. If the request fails, it says so, keeps every word the visitor typed, and shows an email address to use instead.

Three small files: the form markup, a validation script, and an adapter for wherever you are posting. Adapters are included for Formspree, a Cloudflare Worker and a plain POST URL. Errors render next to the field and are announced through an aria-live region, so a screen reader hears that the email address is invalid rather than meeting a silent red border. Spam is handled with a honeypot field and a time-to-submit check, so there is no captcha and no third-party script.

Wrong choice if you need file uploads, multiple steps, conditional questions or payment. It is one form: name, email, message, and up to three extra fields you define.

Included

What you get

  • Form component with fields and states wired up
  • Validation with aria-live error announcements
  • Failure state that keeps input and shows a fallback address
  • Adapters for Formspree, a Worker and a plain POST URL
  • Honeypot and timing check for bots
  • Pending, success and error styling
How it works

After you buy

  1. 01 You message me On WhatsApp. Tell me which one and where it is going.
  2. 02 I set it up for you Your words, your colours, your logo dropped in — or the raw files if you would rather do it yourself.
  3. 03 It goes live On your hosting or on mine. Either way it ends up in your own account.
  4. 04 It is yours The whole thing, with nothing to renew and nothing tied back to me.