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[housey2]

Hi,

When adding a mailto link to a page I need to have a to, subject and body fields with text in.

I have all three working with:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?Subject=thisisatest&amp;body=blah blah blah">email</a>

The thing is I need to apply a <br> type command to the body text as it all appears on one line and I need like two paragraphs...


Can anyone help pls?

TIA !

housey

[Rick Bull]

I think you can use %0D%0A for new lines. Also when you have spaces in an e-mail make sure you replace them with %20 as some browsers don't like spaces.

[housey2]

Thanx for your reply Rick but %0D%0A didn't work. I used:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?Subject=thisisatest&body=blah blah blah %0D%0A blah blah">email</a>

I that correct?

Also do u know how to inlcude a 'from' field?


Thanks again !!

[Rick Bull]

Oh sorry, I know I've got it to work before, and I was sure it was that. I'll try to figure it out. I don't think you can change the from field as that's determined by the user's e-mail client's settings, I could be wrong though.

[bsw2112]

0D 0A is the hexadecimal value for carrige return line feed
i tried it to make sure and it does work

are you sure you are using 0 (number) and not O (letter)?

bsw2112

[Rick Bull]

I found him on another forum and he said it does work, just not on his computer (at least I think it's him, either that or someone's coping him ).

[bsw2112]

[housey2]

Thanks guys !

YES it was me on the other forum !

It is working now.... shame about the 'from' field... i'll just have to do it in server script which is a bummer as I wanted to keep it all html/java...

THANKS !!!


Tim