adding email body to mailto: 1

[superfly404]

I'm trying to use the following mailto: to populate the body of an email in HTML, with breaks in the copy body of the email. However, I don't want to use <br> tags since some people may have text only email. I was wondering if there is an ASCII equivalent or something, that would put breaks in the email, so that the body reads:

Name:
Address:
Telephone:

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<A HREF="mailto:test@test.com?subject=Your Test Email&body=Address:<br>
Address:<br>Telephone:<br>">Contact Us</A>

 

[RISTMO]

Use "\n" or "\r" instead of "<br>".

Rick

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[superfly404]

i tried, but the link doesnt work now? does \n need to be enclosed in some special characters or something, i tried double and single quotes with no luck

 

[mkrausnick]

Try a CR/LF pair, coded in HTML as:




See

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_asciiref.asp

for a an ascii reference.

Mike Krausnick
Dublin, California

 

[mkrausnick]

Sorry, make that:

%0D%0A

instead of &#13;&#10;
. Here's another W3Schools link you can play with to see how MAILTO will act:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_link_mailto2

.

I discovered that my suggestion does NOT work correctly if the user DOES have HTML email enabled.




Mike Krausnick
Dublin, California

 

[mkrausnick]

OK, I was wrong - %0D%OA DOES work in both HTML and Text mode, at least with Outlook.

Mike Krausnick
Dublin, California