Can I have a mailto link specify a subject and body?

Thanks for the useful information. But here I want to ask one more question. While mentioning "body=" I want to change the line. I used br tag of html for it but instead of breaking the line, the tag is displayed as it is. Is there any method to break the line while using "body="

Amit, try using more than one body attribute, as shown in the very last example. It should let you break it into multiple lines. As you've found, you can't slip HTML into it, though, or you'll get the HTML source itself in the resultant message.

Hi Dave,

I hav ea small problem with the mailto link. How can I make the body content to be bold. Can you help me please.

Thanks.
Arun

Don't believe you can do that, Arun. Sorry.

oops!... :(

Anyway. Thanks for the help Dave. :)

Regards,
Arun

I'm trying to use multiple "body=" tags to break up the text but I always only get the text of the last one to appear in the email. What's wrong?

I think that multiple body= attributes is going to be supported by some Web browsers / email programs, but not others. I'd either experiment with more browser/OS/email combinations or just figure out how to have one really long body= attribute. Good luck!

%0A == line break in a mailto link

example HREF:

mailto:addy@gmail.com?subject=Some Kind Of Subject&body=Here is my email body and %0Aa %0Afew %0Aline %0Abreaks.

Thank you, Alan, %0A works just fine to break the body into multiple lines of text in a mailto command.

I have this mailto link that I'm trying to use:

and in the resulting Thunderbird compose msg window I get the output a) in the TO: address field, b) in the CC: adress field and c) in the msg body:

a) someone@someadd.com
b)someoneelse"@someotheradd.com?subject=some subject?body=Hello+you!
c)Thanks for0%Anice0�������������������������

Thank you! very well explained and functional!

This doesnt seem to work in IE7. What is the deal with IE7, is this a known problem, and is there a fix? please help!

Sir,

How can i use charchetr "&" inside body?

If i use inside the body , It will take automatically as separator.

I have to insert a URL in the body of a mail using mailto tag. What I am getting is just the plain text and not the hyperlink in the body.
Are there any attributes for this in the bosy tag?
can you help me with this?

Thanks.

using extra body tags doesn't work to create new lines for me on Mac Mail program

hi,
i am using mailto:someone@somewhere.com?Subject=something

While this seems to work fine for mail editors such as outlook the subject doesn't get recognized in gmail or yahoo.is there a work around??

Thanks,
Chaitanya

Hi,

I need to display the test within "" inside the body of the mail using mailto tag..

can you help me..

I see a lot of questions concerning sneaking HTML into the mail, for example hyperlinks and making text bold. I'd say that this is by defintion impossible, because you're making a TEXT email. No mark-up whatso-ever...

Hi! Can you please help me. I need to pass the body of mailto: from a textbox. Is this possible? I'm using ASP.Net. Can you please send me the code if possible. Thank you so much in advance.

I have to insert a URL in the body of a mail using mailto tag. What I am getting is just the plain text and not the hyperlink in the body.

Hi,

Is this format supposed to work for Macs?

thanks,
Aju

From the article (and comments abound) I was able to create a mailto: link that works perfectly for our function! Terrific advice! Will be back in the future.

Hello,
Can you control the position of the cursor in Microsoft Outlook/express via mailto:

For some reason

i have a few email links

yet some works and some don't, they're just plain text

why is this so?

Hi, This funcion is not working in IE7 at all. Its just displaying the email id. The subject and the body is not displayed. Is this a known problem, and is there a fix? please help! Urgent

THANK YOU for the %0A code to be used in the mailto link!!! It worked great! I had been searching for this solution for hours!

Hi dave taylor,

I have a problem in mailto reply. When I click on a link to send email through mailto then I need some information populated in body field which is not properly display in formatted. What should I do. I need to show body text with formatted text. Please if you have a answer then let me know.

Thanks..

How to format the body message using mailto like underline and making the text bold

As I found out html tags within body attribute works well with Mozilla Thunderbird but not with Outlook.

How can we add attachments to mailto tag

Thanks,
Ramana.PV

I have a "canned" email as a hyperlink in Excel. The problem I have now is "the powers that be" want a change to the canned email. There are many carriage returns and a large boby with an additional signature block at the bottom. Excel will only allow a certain amount of characters in the body leaving me with half a message.

How can I get my whole message in the body?

John.

TQVM. It worked great. :D

hello...
in mailto option in html,visitors can alter the address,body etc...how can we avoid that?

Urmila, you can't. The only way you can guarantee that the email subject, etc., isn't modified is to create an HTML form and hide that content from the visitor, as I do with the "submit a question" form here on this site.

Thanks so much for this info! I randomly found it via Google search and it was exactly what I needed. Cheers!!

Your article was very helpful in getting my initial problem solved, but...

I use Gmail as my mail client. When I submit the form, it opens up Gmail in another tab and the original form page goes to the "about:blank" page. Can I prevent this, or more preferably, can I have it go to a confirmation page? If so, how? I'm not sure this is a problem with non-web based mail clients, but I don't have a way to test that at the moment.

Thank you for sharing this article and how to do line breaks in the body section.

%0A did the trick nicely!

Cheers! :)

Do you know if i can link the subject line to a cell? I wanted to be able to use a different subject line by controlling what certain cell contains

Thanks Rob

Is there a way to add an image to the email? Or make a request to the system to open the photo album on the way to the email composition form?

%26 can be used to put & inside the body.

Thanks for this information. Addition of CC and BCC was a great input; solves my problem :)

Hi,

Thanks for the great info. Now I'm trying to have a body content that has about 2,200 characters (after converting spaces and paragraphs into %20 and %A0) but the link is not working. It seems like there is an upper limit on the length for the body field. Does anyone know what is the length? And better yet, does anyone know how to avoid this limit?

Thanks,
JP

JP, I think you're pushing the envelope there. The maximum theoretical length of a URL is 2048 characters, according the specs I've read. However, many Web browsers actually implement a shorter length and I know that it used to be 1024 total characters, including the "http" and all that. Not a ton of space. If you're trying to send 2200 characters, I suggest you look at a Method=POST style CGI form instead: then there'll be no size limitations at all.

Hi,
I want to see only the text assigned to the url to be displayed, wen i click .

for eg:-
javascript:void(window.location.href='mailto:?Subject=hello&body=Click Here ')

When the above line of code is executed, it should open outlook /email displaying only " Click Here" and on clicking the specified url should open.

Thanks,

I have no idea on any of that but could someone help me. I have firefox and enabled the mailto: to yahoo mail. When I click a email link it opens in yahoo. But the subject is in the to: spot along with the address. The subject is empty. I have no idea what to do to fix this and been searching the web a few weeks hoping to find something. Is annoying having to copy and past everything in the right spots. Any help in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

use %26 to insert the & symbol with it not separating the email link.

I have tried this backwards and forwards, but it does not seem like the subject line can be populated on the iphone using the standard mailto:email@email?subject=Subject of email method. Has anyone else ran into this? I just need to get a subject line pre-populated, but do not want to mess with controls etc.

Thanks!

Position Body=& cc=& bcc=

When I click on a mailto link from outside a website it generates a "google search" for the terms shown above. A gmail form does open with the address in too but in the back ground. Why does the email not open in the forground and why does the google search happen? Noticed this happening with other sites too and not small ones, even major business services which should have thier act together and have things arranged to facilitate communication with their customers not cause them to scratch their heads wondering what is going on.

Hi, I have been used %0A for line break it works for mail client like gmail and outlook, but its not working with default yahoo mail client.

Hello, this link to create a pre-populated email message with the name, subject and body works, great, but what if i need to insert a hyperlink in my text in the body, for example by body reads, please click here to read the full article? How would i put in the hyperlink in the code to create the hyperlink.

@Priti
Just try "", it works on default iPad mail app.

Sorry, again...
@Priti
Just try a BR html code, it works on default iPad mail app.