Sending emails with Javascript
The way I'm doing it now is basically like this:
The HTML:
<textarea id="myText"> Lorem ipsum...</textarea><button onclick="sendMail(); return false">Send</button>
The Javascript:
function sendMail() { var link = "mailto:me@example.com" + "?cc=myCCaddress@example.com" + "&subject=" + encodeURIComponent("This is my subject") + "&body=" + encodeURIComponent(document.getElementById('myText').value) ; window.location.href = link;}
This, surprisingly, works rather well. The only problem is that if the body is particularly long (somewhere over 2000 characters), then it just opens a new email but there's no information in it. I suspect that it'd be to do with the maximum length of the URL being exceeded.
Here's the way doing it using jQuery and an "element" to click on :
$('#element').click(function(){ $(location).attr('href', 'mailto:?subject=' + encodeURIComponent("This is my subject") + "&body=" + encodeURIComponent("This is my body") );});
Then, you can get your contents either by feeding it from input fields (ie. using $('#input1').val()
or by a server side script with $.get('...')
. Have fun
You don't need any javascript, you just need your href to be coded like this:
<a href="mailto:me@me.com">email me here!</a>