GArlington wrote:
[...]
<a href="mailto:b...@blah.com?Subject=thisSubject&Bod y=The message's
first paragraph.%0ASecond paragraph.%0AThird Paragraph.">mailto</a>
An end-of-line character can only be written as %0D%0A here. RFC 2368:
| Also note that line breaks in the body of a message MUST be
| encoded with "%0D%0A".
The example stands a bit further:
| <mailto:in*****@example.com?body=send%20current-
| issue%0D%0Asend%20index>
Also, spaces are not allowed, they must be written as %20. Apostrophes
can be written as ' or %27, my preference goes to %27. The variables
'thebody' and 'dropdown' must be percent-encoded before they can be
used inside an URI.
All together:
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Feedback Form</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function now() {
var thebody = escape(document.testform.thebody.value);
var dropdown = escape(document.testform.dropdown.value);
window.location.href = "mailto:no*****@invalid.com?"
+ "subject=Mail%20Test&body="
+ thebody
+ '%0D%0A'
+ dropdown;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="testform" method="get" action="#"
onSubmit="return false;">
<p>
<textarea name="thebody" rows="5" cols="30">This is test.</textarea>
<br>
<select size="1" name="dropdown">
<option value="yes">yes</option>
<option value="no">no</option>
</selectchoose yes or no.</p>
<p><input type="button" value="click me" onClick="now();"></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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To the original poster: I've altered your code so that it's now valid
HTML (4.01, transitional), please see validator.w3.org for details.
Also be careful for leading/trailing end-of-line characters inside
<textarea>. I removed them in any case.
Hope this helps,
--
Bart
