mailto: tags?

[Val]

Any experts on mailto: tags?

I want to set a link so that the subject and some of the body of the
email is filled in. This is easy for simple text, although you need to
use %20 for spaces:

<a href="mailto:no ****@nowhere.co m
?subject=Your web site
&body=This%20is %20the%20%body! ">
click here</a>

I want to pre-format the body text, like this:

Name: |
Address: |
Postcode: |
Email: |

[The | are just to show that I've added tabs]

I've tried all the expected things, like %13 or %0A, but I just get a
blob in the text.

Can it be done?

[Thor Kottelin]

Val wrote:

I want to set a link so that the subject and some of the body of the
email is filled in. This is easy for simple text, although you need to
use %20 for spaces:

<a href="mailto:no ****@nowhere.co m
?subject=Your web site
&body=This%20is %20the%20%body! ">
click here</a>

I want to pre-format the body text, like this:

Name: |
Address: |
Postcode: |
Email: |

[The | are just to show that I've added tabs]

<a
href="mailto:no ****@nowhere.co m?subject=Your% 20web%20site&am p;body=Name:%09 %0D%0AAddress:% 09%0D%0APostcod e:%09%0D%0AEmai l:%09%0D%0A">cl ick
here</a>

Thor

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[Steve Pugh]

Val <va******@hotma il.com> wrote:

Any experts on mailto: tags?
No, because there's no such thing. But we know what you mean.
I want to set a link so that the subject and some of the body of the
email is filled in. This is easy for simple text, although you need to
use %20 for spaces:

<a href="mailto:no ****@nowhere.co m
?subject=You r web site
&body=This%20i s%20the%20%body !">
click here</a>
1. You need to escape the & as &amp;
2. Why use %20 for spaces some of the (in your body) but not all of
the time (in your subject)?
3. It's unreliable, depending on the browser and e-mail client (if
any!) that the user has. Do you want to actually receive these emails
or are you happy for a percentage of the to drop into a black hole?
I want to pre-format the body text, like this:

Name: |
Address: |
Postcode: |
Email: |

Now why would you want to create an e-mail like that? Are you
expecting the user to then put in their details at the correct points?

Perhaps you should be looking at using a form, which is much more
reliable and can send you the results with whatever formatting you
desire.

Steve

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I never answer letters and you don't like my tie." - The Doctor

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net > <http://steve.pugh.net/>

[Brian]

Val wrote:

Any experts on mailto: tags?
This is not an html question, so the help you get here may not be as
good as it would be in other groups.
I want to set a link so that the subject and some of the body of the
email is filled in.

This is unsupported. Trying it risks the mailto: link not working at
all. Of course, no mailto: link will work when the client has no
email program installed.

--
Brian
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[Eric Jarvis]

Brian wrote:

Val wrote:

Any experts on mailto: tags?

This is not an html question, so the help you get here may not be as
good as it would be in other groups.

actually the answer is an html answer...as Steve Pugh has already
explained this is a case for a form

I want to set a link so that the subject and some of the body of the
email is filled in.

This is unsupported. Trying it risks the mailto: link not working at
all. Of course, no mailto: link will work when the client has no
email program installed.

the big problem in what is being attempted is to use "click here" as the
anchor text...using the email address would at least allow it to be copied
and pasted into an email client...howeve r the additional requirements
would be better served by using a form

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eric
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all these years I've waited for the revolution
and all we end up getting is spin

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.

In article <3h************ *************** *****@4ax.com>, Val wrote:

<a href="mailto:no ****@nowhere.co m
?subject=Your web site
&body=This%20is %20the%20%body! ">
click here</a>

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the "?subject=foo&b ody=bar"
syntax non-standard? If so, then any solution you find isn't guaranteed to
work on all conforming browsers anyway.

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(7_\\ http://www.nothingisreal.com/ >< To finish what you

[Thor Kottelin]

Tristan Miller wrote:

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the "?subject=foo&b ody=bar"
syntax non-standard?

You're right; RFC 2368 is a *proposed* standard.

Thor

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[Brian]

Eric Jarvis wrote:

Brian wrote:

Val wrote:

Any experts on mailto: tags?

This is not an html question, so the help you get here may not be as
good as it would be in other groups.

actually the answer is an html answer...as Steve Pugh has already
explained this is a case for a form

Well, yes, the answer is html. :-)

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[Stan Brown]

In article <eIifb.488697$c F.171145@rwcrns c53> in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html, Brian
<us*****@mangym utt.com.invalid-remove-this-part> wrote:

Val wrote:

Any experts on mailto: tags?

This is not an html question, so the help you get here may not be as
good as it would be in other groups.

I'm curious. Which "other groups" do you think would be more
appropriate?

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validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

[Brian]

Stan Brown wrote:

In article <eIifb.488697$c F.171145@rwcrns c53> in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html, Brian
<us*****@mangym utt.com.invalid-remove-this-part> wrote:

Val wrote:

Any experts on mailto: tags?

This is not an html question, so the help you get here may not be as
good as it would be in other groups.

I'm curious. Which "other groups" do you think would be more
appropriate?

I dunno. I don't participate them. :) I found comp.mail.heade rs.
Seems like a stretch, that one. How about ciwa.misc? Or the mail
groups to see if any will operate the way the op wants. Perhaps
ciwa.site-design makes more sense, but then, that tends to include all
the usual suspects from ciwah.

I'm staring to think I spoke too soon in making that suggestion. Can
I retract that statement?

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