Expanding the Mailto: tag

Adding Subject Line and Text or Link into Body of Email

[ruleone01]

I came upon webmasterworld.com and this subject in a web search. The web search pointed me to a mailto tag which was incorrect, in that it put semi-colons between the mailtag actions, instead of the & sign. See below, that the & is correct. The semicolon did not work in my outlook.

<a href="mailto:name<[e-mail]>?subject=Complaint Form&body=Please describe your complaint here.">Complaint Form</a>

me

[monkeythumpa]

Try changing the "mailto:name<[e-mail]>" to "mailto:[e-mail]" and it should work. I am guessing that the carats are confusing the email client or browser.

[photon]

What monkeythumpa said.

And, welcome to WebmasterWorld!

[choster]

A browser sets aside the characters < and > for denoting HTML tags, so it will be confused if you try to place them inside an HTML tag. You may be able to retain them if you escape the characters, for instance:

<a href="mailto:name&lt;[e-mail]&gt;?subject=Complaint Form&body=Please describe your complaint here.">Complaint Form</a>

<a href="mailto:[e-mail]%3E?subject=Complaint Form&body=Please describe your complaint here.">Complaint Form</a>

It will all depend on the client, however.

[ruleone01]

Works fine now.

Thanks