Hyperlink email address not working 2

[MarcusStringer]

Hi Guys,
I have a form on my website which requests a quote... (.ASP)

It then, upon submitting, sends the form via HTML email to the relevant person.

What this person is asking for is to have the "emailcontact" information hyperlinked in the eventual email...

so they can simply click on the link to reply via the email address supplied under the "emailcontact" variable...

I can't get it to work using the
<a href=mailto:"emailcontact" line
Hope that makes sence?

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[Vragabond]

Your code should work. Are you sure it is not email client that is stripping the tags? Have you tried simply outputting the body of the email to a webpage to see how the browsers handle it?

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[ChrisHunt]

I can't get it to work using the
<a href=mailto:"emailcontact" line

If that's actually what you've put, it needs to be

<a href="mailto:emailcontact@example.com">emailcontact@example.com</a>

i.e. the mailto: bit goes inside the quotes, not outside.

If that's not what you've put, maybe you could cut and paste the HTML you've actually generated (not the ASP that builds it) and we'll see what's wrong.



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Webmaster & Tragedian
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[MarcusStringer]

<td><a href="mailto:&request.form("emailcontact")&">"&request.form("emailcontact")&"</a>""</td>"

It needs to be a variable (emailcontact) like in the top picture so when the HTML email arrives that variable (emailcontact) is hyperlinked

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[johnwm]

This looks like an ASP syntax problem, rather than an HTML problem. Try forum333

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[Vragabond]

You have two double quotes between </a> and </td>, which I think should not be there. Other than that, I think it looks good.

I stand by my initial thought that you should output this text to the browser to see if email client is doing something to the hyperlinks.

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[vicvirk]

The crappy thing about VBscript is that it doesn't handle escape characters very well, so using double quotes is a bit of a pain.

This should solve it for you:

bodytext = bodytext & "<tr>"
bodytext = bodytext & "<td>Email Contact: </td>"
bodytext = bodytext & "<td><a href=""mailto:" & request.form("emailcontact") & """>" & request.form("emailcontact") & "</a></td>"
bodytext = bodytext & "</tr>"

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[MarcusStringer]

Bingo...
Thanks Vicvirk...

What the difference between double and single quotes?

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[ChrisHunt]

It looks like you've fixed the problem, but I'll repeat what I said above:

cut and paste the HTML you've actually generated (not the ASP that builds it)

If you only look at the ASP and assume that it's coming out right, you're gonna have plenty more problems like this.

Run your program, then do a "view source" on the result - then you'll know if you're generating the HTML you think you're generating.

What the difference between double and single quotes?

In HTML, there's no difference - you can use either. It can be handy to use one sort of quote when the value it's enclosing includes the other sort. What difference there might be in ASP I couldn't say.

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Webmaster & Tragedian
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[MarcusStringer]

Thanks Chris, for the help...

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[vicvirk]

What the difference between double and single quotes?

In ASP (VBScript) a single quote defines a comment, wereas a double quote defines a string.

two double quotes work like an escape char in most other languages...

i.e.

document.write("hello \"marcus\"");

response.write "hello ""marcus"""

It's a lot harder to read in vbscript, especially if you are adding variables to the output.

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