How do you properly construct a mailto: link without the part.
mailto:[email protected]?
I dont want the address and just want whats in the parameters afterward to be filled in through the mailto.
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A:
You can use mailto in this way
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Subject&cc=CC&bcc=BCC&body=BODY">Clickme!</a>
rlbisbe
2010-08-22 08:07:08
The question specifically asked for it without the address, and that HTML is invalid.
David Dorward
2010-08-22 08:20:49
Should I delete the answer then? I'm new in the site
rlbisbe
2010-08-22 08:33:02
Erik
2010-08-22 08:47:32
Thanks for the clue, corrected.
rlbisbe
2010-08-22 08:55:10
+1
A:
You can't.
The purpose of a mailto: URI is to describe an email address. The stuff for filling in other headers was tacked on later.
There is no standard way to launch an email client with a specified subject, body, etc without specifying the email address.
David Dorward
2010-08-22 08:20:12
is there a "non-standard" way? I'm trying all sorts of things with special characters. Testing a mailto: link in Firefox to Gmail. Basically I want it to skip down to the subject area, leaving the (to) field empty with no characters or spaces.
egfx
2010-08-22 09:30:21
A:
You probably cannot omit the e-mail address.
However, you could put in an e-mail address that is clearly invalid, such that the user will know to replace it; you could for example use one of the reserved TLDs .example, .invalid, or .test.
stakx
2010-08-22 08:24:43