Custom mail formatting using form

[Petre Huile]

I'm trying to mail form data by using the technique:

form.action="mailto:address?Subject=subject&body=b odyText"

(the placeholders above are obviously not real :)).

The thing is I want to customize the body text, but the submit action
of the form always overwrites any body text I set in the line above
with the default output of the form (a fieldname=value list).

How can I implement mailing from the form so that I can do more
flexible formatting of the body text?

Thanks.
Petre

[steve stevo]

Have you tried changing the method to post ?
"Petre Huile" <ph****@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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I'm trying to mail form data by using the technique:

form.action="mailto:address?Subject=subject&body=b odyText"

(the placeholders above are obviously not real :)).

The thing is I want to customize the body text, but the submit action
of the form always overwrites any body text I set in the line above
with the default output of the form (a fieldname=value list).

How can I implement mailing from the form so that I can do more
flexible formatting of the body text?

Thanks.
Petre

[Jerry Park]

Petre Huile wrote:

I'm trying to mail form data by using the technique:

form.action="mailto:address?Subject=subject&body=b odyText"

(the placeholders above are obviously not real :)).

The thing is I want to customize the body text, but the submit action
of the form always overwrites any body text I set in the line above
with the default output of the form (a fieldname=value list).

How can I implement mailing from the form so that I can do more
flexible formatting of the body text?

Thanks.
Petre

Since there is no consistent browser response to mailto: actions, you
should generally avoid the construction.

[Hywel Jenkins]

In article <5a*************************@posting.google.com> ,
ph****@yahoo.ca says...

I'm trying to mail form data by using the technique:

form.action="mailto:address?Subject=subject&body=b odyText"

(the placeholders above are obviously not real :)).

The thing is I want to customize the body text, but the submit action
of the form always overwrites any body text I set in the line above
with the default output of the form (a fieldname=value list).

How can I implement mailing from the form so that I can do more
flexible formatting of the body text?

Use a server-side solution. What you're trying to do is unpredictable
at best.

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