How to get contents of a form send in the email

Question

I am trying to get the contents of a form to send in an email. Below is the code but it does not add the text to the email.

<form method="post" action="mailto:emailaddress@co.uk.com">
  First name:<br>
  <input type="text" name="firstname" value="MR">
  <br>
  Last name:<br>
  <input type="text" name="lastname" value="Test">
  <br><br>
  <input type="submit" value="send email" />
</form> 

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Answer 1

<input  type="text" name="firstname" id="fstName"/>
<input  type="text" name="lastname" id="lstName"/>

to get value of those textbox use this:

FirstName= $("#fstName").val();
LastName= $("#lstName").val();