[schuey100]

Hey guys

I'm trying to create a mailto link on a webpage that includes text in the title and in the message body of the resulting email.

The problem is, I can't get the line break to work.

Here's the code I'm using:

"Click <a href="mailto:preview@olapreport.com?subject=OLAP Report Preview Request?body=Name: %0dJob Title: %0dCompany: %0dTelephone: ">here</A> to request a free preview of the OLAP Report."

The problem is, when the email opens up, the text in the message body is all in a line and not on sepparate lines. Can anyone help?

BTW, it works fine from Safari but of course most people will be using IE and it doesn't seem to work from there!

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by schuey100:
The problem is, when the email opens up, the text in the message body is all in a line and not on sepparate lines. Can anyone help?

BTW, it works fine from Safari but of course most people will be using IE and it doesn't seem to work from there!

Here you go:


Click <a href="mailto:preview@olapreport.com?subject=OLAP Report Preview Request&body=Name: %0dJob Title: %0dCompany: %0dTelephone: ">here</A> to request a free preview of the OLAP Report.


When doing URL encoding, you only use a question mark to mark the first element. After that you use ampersand.

Also, you may find that you need to replace spaces with "%20", but it seems to work without on OSX and Safari.

[schuey100]

Thanks! Works now!.

[larkost]

I have worked on this sort of thing in the past, and had troubles with windows clients. Some combinations of IE and various mail clients (Outlook Express being among them) simply would not acknowledge line breaks. So don't look for 100% compatibility.

[schuey100]

I've noticed 99.9% of my clients are windows and express users so as long as it works for them I'm happy. Now I just need to convince the business world to go OSX hehe