Custom mail formatting using form

[Petre Huile]

I'm trying to mail form data by using the technique:

form.action="ma ilto:address?Su bject=subject&b ody=bodyText"

(the placeholders above are obviously not real :)).

The thing is I want to customize the body text, but the submit action
of the form always overwrites any body text I set in the line above
with the default output of the form (a fieldname=value list).

How can I implement mailing from the form so that I can do more
flexible formatting of the body text?

Thanks.
Petre

[steve stevo]

Re: Custom mail formatting using form

Have you tried changing the method to post ?


"Petre Huile" <phuile@yahoo.c a> wrote in message
news:5ada05a7.0 310200435.bd991 c5@posting.goog le.com...[color=blue]
> I'm trying to mail form data by using the technique:
>
> form.action="ma ilto:address?Su bject=subject&b ody=bodyText"
>
> (the placeholders above are obviously not real :)).
>
> The thing is I want to customize the body text, but the submit action
> of the form always overwrites any body text I set in the line above
> with the default output of the form (a fieldname=value list).
>
> How can I implement mailing from the form so that I can do more
> flexible formatting of the body text?
>
> Thanks.
> Petre[/color]

[Jerry Park]

Re: Custom mail formatting using form

Petre Huile wrote:
[color=blue]
> I'm trying to mail form data by using the technique:
>
> form.action="ma ilto:address?Su bject=subject&b ody=bodyText"
>
> (the placeholders above are obviously not real :)).
>
> The thing is I want to customize the body text, but the submit action
> of the form always overwrites any body text I set in the line above
> with the default output of the form (a fieldname=value list).
>
> How can I implement mailing from the form so that I can do more
> flexible formatting of the body text?
>
> Thanks.
> Petre[/color]
Since there is no consistent browser response to mailto: actions, you
should generally avoid the construction.

[Hywel Jenkins]

Re: Custom mail formatting using form

In article <5ada05a7.03102 00435.bd991c5@p osting.google.c om>,
phuile@yahoo.ca says...[color=blue]
> I'm trying to mail form data by using the technique:
>
> form.action="ma ilto:address?Su bject=subject&b ody=bodyText"
>
> (the placeholders above are obviously not real :)).
>
> The thing is I want to customize the body text, but the submit action
> of the form always overwrites any body text I set in the line above
> with the default output of the form (a fieldname=value list).
>
> How can I implement mailing from the form so that I can do more
> flexible formatting of the body text?[/color]

Use a server-side solution. What you're trying to do is unpredictable
at best.

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