How do I configure the "mailto" to include a subject line?
This is not exclusively Java-related, but...
- The <A> - A is an anchor tag.
- <A HREF="blah"> send me email</A>
- HREF is an attribute of the anchor tag that tells the browser to do something. Other attributes of the anchor tag include "NAME" and "TARGET". Capitalization is not important.
- <A HREF="mailto:me@my.host"> send me email</A>
- mailto: tells the browser to send an email.
- <A HREF="mailto:me@my.host
?"> send me email</A>
- the question mark, ? tells the email client to look for a variable in addition to the email address.
- <A HREF="mailto:me@my.host
?subject=hello"> send me email</A>
- subject= tells the email client to fill the subject line with whatever subject is equal to.
- <A HREF="mailto:me@my.host
?subject=hello
&"> send me email</A>
- the ampersand, & tells the email client to look for additional variables. So ? goes before the first variable, and & goes before each of the remaining variables.
- <A HREF="mailto:me@my.host
?subject=hello
&cc=myfriend@my.host
&body=this_is_the_body"> send me email</A>
- you can preload other email fields as well.
Try the following:
<A HREF="mailto:me@my.host ?subject=hello &body=this_is_the_body &cc=carbon_copy">click me</A>
click me
Spaces in the values will confuse the email client, so you can use underscores as above, or you can use the 'escape sequence', %20 to encode spaces.
Try the following:
<A HREF="mailto:me@my.host ?subject=hello &body=this%20is%20the%20body &cc=carbon%20copy"> click me</A>
click me
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