how do I configure email on a contact form?

Question

How do I configure the email address for a contact form? I am using a template and have noob level knowledge of HTML and CSS and not much else. I would like to trace where I put my email address so that I start receiving emails via the form.

The HTML for the contact is

                    <div class="tab-entry">

                        <div class="row tab-entry-intro">
                        <div class="col-twelve with-bottom-line">



                        </div>          
                    </div> <!-- /tab-content-intro -->

                    <div class="row form-wrap tab-entry-content">
                        <div class="col-twelve">

                            <!-- form -->
                            <form name="contactForm" id="contactForm" method="post" action="">
                                <fieldset>

                                  <div class="form-field">
                                           <input name="contactName" type="text" id="contactName" placeholder="Name" value="" minlength="2" required="">
                                  </div>
                                  <div class="form-field">
                                       <input name="contactEmail" type="email" id="contactEmail" placeholder="Email" value="" required="">
                                   </div>
                                  <div class="form-field">
                                           <input name="contactSubject" type="text" id="contactSubject" placeholder="Subject" value="">
                                   </div>                       
                                  <div class="form-field">
                                        <textarea name="contactMessage" id="contactMessage" placeholder="message" rows="10" cols="50" required=""></textarea>
                                   </div>                      
                                 <div class="form-field">
                                     <button class="submitForm button button-primary large">Submit</button>

                                     <div id="submit-loader">
                                        <div class="text-loader">Sending...</div>                             
                                          <div class="s-loader">
                                                    <div class="bounce1"></div>
                                                    <div class="bounce2"></div>
                                                    <div class="bounce3"></div>
                                                </div>
                                            </div><!-- submit-loader -->
                                  </div>

                                </fieldset>
                            </form> <!-- /form -->

                            <!-- contact-warning -->
                            <div id="message-warning">              
                            </div>            
                            <!-- contact-success -->
                            <div id="message-success">
                               <i class="fa fa-check"></i>Your message was sent, thank you!<br>
                            </div>

                         </div> <!-- /col-twelve -->                            
                    </div> <!-- /row contact-form -->

                    </div> <!-- /tab-entry -->                  

                </div> <!-- /tab-contact -->

Answer 1

Seding an email directly with javascript (as it´s your tag) is not possible, but you can open the user mail client:

window.open('mailto:name@domain.com');

It´s possible to have a predetermined subject and body using these variables:

window.open('mailto:name@domain.com?subject=example_subject&body=example_body');