Form not being recognised during gatsby build - 404 response in production

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This is the starting place for forms debugging questions:

[Support Guide] Form problems, form debugging, 404 when submitting

Last reviewed August 2023 Please give these debugging tips a try before making a new post. If none of the suggestions work, please include the information that we request at the end of this guide in the new post that you create. Thank you! Why use Forms? Forms are one of the most useful parts of modern websites because they allow us to capture input from our visitors. There are many ways to use forms: contact forms, such as contact forms and sign-up forms. Seeing as there are many types of fo…

Looking at the site in question, it looks like there is no form in the HTML until the javascript is run.

This means there is no pure “HTML only” form. That HTML form is a prerequisite for our Forms feature to work.

The fastest way to resolve this is to allow the form to render in the browser and then copy/paste that form HTML into a new file. Then save that HTML file and include it as a static file in the publish directory.

You don’t need to submit forms using the HTML file. However, the pure HTML form must exist somewhere in the raw files of the site (before javascript is run) for our system to create the backend forms handler.

If there are other questions about this, please let us know.