using mailto html in text box with rich text format

[magicmandan]

Hi I'm having problems getting the mailto hyperlink working in a text box on a form that has text format of "rich text", control source being a memo data type.

To test the rich text control and source i have created a form with 2 text boxes, one set to rich text the other plain text so that i can add any html to the plain tesxt and see the correct display on the rich text box.

All website hyperlinks work as they should using:

<a href="

http://www.here.org.uk">www.here.org.uk</a>

Using the following standard html mark up for mailto doesn't create the hyperlink in the rich text formatted textbox.

<a href="mailto:enquiries@here.org.uk">email</a>

In the rich text control it just displays "email" with no underlining or hyperlink ability.

However if i change this to:
<a href="

http://www.mailto:enquiries@here.org.uk">www.mailto:enquiries@here.org.uk</a>

The rich text control shows

http://www.mailto:enquiries@here.org.uk

underlined as a hyperlink and when clicked actually opens the default mail client with a new message (rather than trying to open a browser window! which is what I want but the new mail message 'To' is

http://www.mailto:enquiries@here.org.uk

which is not acceptable)

I can't understand what is going on, it seems rich text can create a mail message like i intend but only by appending www. to a mailto item. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[magicmandan]

EDIT....

With more experiment I have changed the mailto html to read:

<div>&nbsp;<a href="mailto:enquiries@here.org.uk">mailto:enquiries@here.org.uk</a></div>

This now opens the default mail client and adds the correct 'to' address : "enquiries@here.org.uk" the only problem being now is that in the rich text box control the line is displayed as:

mailto:enquiries@here.org.uk

this works perfectly for someone using the hyperlink functionality but users who are just going to copy this email address or manually write an email they may include the 'mailto:' part thinking it is actually the full email address to write to.

So how do i just get the rich text to display enquiries@here.org.uk?