Using html in Zoho CRM email to send a form that works

Using html in Zoho CRM email to send a form that works

Hello there,

I'm trying to use Zoho CRM's email templates to email certain clients a pre-made template with a form inside of it. I have this form pre-populated using Zoho's normal ${Contacts.ZZZ} to inject information and I wanted to submit this information via php to a web program that will analyze any changes made and then use Zoho's API to edit and update info in my customer database. 

Here is my problem though, every time I enter the form information Zoho seems to want to strip out all of my formatting, for example:

<form name="fubar" action="http://www.zzzzzzzzzz.com/holdInfo.php" method="post">

Every time I save the email template, it reverts the above code to: 

<form>

 Zoho is compatible with the post action since I can directly call the action if I edit each and every email going out, but this defeats the purpose of having email templates. Is there any way to preserve my formatting in the email template, or is there any one of the many zoho tools that can accomplish what I am trying to do?

Many Thanks,
D