mailto line break question

[mkalex]

Hi All,
Great site BTW!
OK, I'm very new at this so forgive me ignorance, please!

I have a little JS that emails elements from a form; name, choice from a drop-down list, and "comments". It all works fine except that when it dumps the results into the body of the email, there are no line breaks.
I tried adding + "\r" and "\n" with no improvement. I'm guess the script is sending plain text at this point. Is there any way to embed an ascii code for carriage return in the + "" section of this code?

function SendEmail()
{
    var dept = 'department';
    var toaddy = '[e-mail]';
    var subject = 'Contact Us Reply';
    var mailer = 'mailto:' + toaddy + '?subject=' + subject + '&body=' + 
'Name%20is:%20' +  document.jsform.visitorname.value  + "" +
'Request%20is:%20' + document.jsform.department.value + "" +
'Comments%20are:%20\n' + document.jsform.message.value + "" ;
    parent.location = mailer; 
} // -->
 
 

Thanks.
--MK
PS I'm in a MacOS environment and I'm testing this in MacMail.

[zaphod42]

did you try "/n/r" ?
"/n" creates a new line, but you need "/r" to come after it to move your point of refence to the new line

[mkalex]

Thanks, zaphod42

I did try "/n/r" or rather "\n\r" with no result.

--MK

[acoder]

I wouldn't recommend mailto unless there's no alternative. Is it not possible to use a server-side language?

[mkalex]

Thanks for the reply Acoder,

You are of course correct, a server side mailer would be better; yet my curiosity is piqued. If I get an answer here on this forum, I will have abetter understanding of javascript.

--MK

[mkalex]

Never mind...

I solved my problem with "\u2029"
It allows me to add a paragraph anywhere I need.

Thanks, though

--MK

[acoder]

Good job. If you escape the line break, you could probably use it in your code, though I haven't tested, e.g. by using encodeURIComponent(), or using String.fromCharCode(10) and 13.

[improvcornartist]

Can you use %0A? It is the URL encoded linefeed.

[acoder]

That makes sense, and that is indeed what encodeURIComponent("\n") produces. If you want a carriage return too, add %0D