Mailto???

[Cheech]

I have a page that sends an email built up from a database. The email address's and subject lines are not a problem. In fact adding the body is not the main problem either.

My problem is the body of the email is taken from one long string held in an Access database and I want to format it for readability. I have tried including "&crlf;" in the string to see if this works but everything after the notation is just ignored.

This is all for an Intranet and all clients use IE 5+ and have Outlook as their email client.

Any one got any ideas......pleeeeeeeeze.. I dont want to go to Chelsea!!!

 

[anorakgirl]

hey there,

we build emails using java and use "\n" [without the quotes ] to get a new line. any help?

 

[bottiverde]

If you are creating the body programmatically you'll have to insert the Carriage Return (0x0d) and Line Feed (0x0a) characters. If you are merely inserting CRLFs to fix a line width, don't bother; most e-mail clients will wrap incoming text to fit the message window and the inserted CRLF's will just
make the
text disjointed.

 

[bottiverde]

Addendum:
Hmmm. I reread your post and infer that you are generating HTML so...

href="mailto:bozo@thecircus.org?subject=stuff&body=big%20shoes%13%10red%20noses"

 

[Cheech]

Cheers for the tips..buttt

the Java from anorakgirl just put the "\n" into the body of the text, & bottiverde's href idea produced -

big shoesred noses

actualy in the email..
and yes it is all done with html

never mind I will not give up.... I dont want to go to Chelsea!!!