mailto link with HTML body

No. This is not possible at all.


Whilst it is NOT possible to use HTML to format your email body you can add line breaks as has been previously suggested.

If you are able to use javascript then "encodeURIComponent()" might be of use like below...

var formattedBody = "FirstLine \n Second Line \n Third Line";
var mailToLink = "mailto:[email protected]?body=" + encodeURIComponent(formattedBody);
window.location.href = mailToLink;

As you can see in RFC 6068, this is not possible at all:

The special <hfname> "body" indicates that the associated <hfvalue> is the body of the message. The "body" field value is intended to contain the content for the first text/plain body part of the message. The "body" pseudo header field is primarily intended for the generation of short text messages for automatic processing (such as "subscribe" messages for mailing lists), not for general MIME bodies.


It's not quite what you want, but it's possible using modern javascript to create an EML file on the client and stream that to the user's file system, which should open a rich email containing HTML in their mail program, such as Outlook:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/27971771/8595398

Here's a jsfiddle of an email containing images and tables: https://jsfiddle.net/seanodotcom/yd1n8Lfh/

HTML

<!-- https://jsfiddle.net/seanodotcom/yd1n8Lfh -->
<textarea id="textbox" style="width: 300px; height: 600px;">
To: User <[email protected]>
Subject: Subject
X-Unsent: 1
Content-Type: text/html

<html>
<head>
<style>
    body, html, table {
        font-family: Calibri, Arial, sans-serif;
    }
    .pastdue { color: crimson; }
    table {
        border: 1px solid silver;
        padding: 6px;
    }
    thead {
        text-align: center;
        font-size: 1.2em;
        color: navy;
        background-color: silver;
        font-weight: bold;
    }
    tbody td {
        text-align: center;
    }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table width=100%>
    <tr>
        <td><img src="http://www.laurell.com/images/logo/laurell_logo_storefront.jpg" width="200" height="57" alt=""></td>
        <td align="right"><h1><span class="pastdue">PAST DUE</span> INVOICE</h1></td>
    </tr>
</table>
<table width=100%>
    <thead>
        <th>Invoice #</th>
        <th>Days Overdue</th>
        <th>Amount Owed</th>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
    <tr>
        <td>OU812</td>
        <td>9</td>
        <td>$4395.00</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>OU812</td>
        <td>9</td>
        <td>$4395.00</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>OU812</td>
        <td>9</td>
        <td>$4395.00</td>
    </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</textarea> <br>
<button id="create">Create file</button><br><br>
<a download="message.eml" id="downloadlink" style="display: none">Download</a>

Javascript

(function () {
var textFile = null,
  makeTextFile = function (text) {
    var data = new Blob([text], {type: 'text/plain'});
    if (textFile !== null) {
      window.URL.revokeObjectURL(textFile);
    }
    textFile = window.URL.createObjectURL(data);
    return textFile;
  };

  var create = document.getElementById('create'),
    textbox = document.getElementById('textbox');
  create.addEventListener('click', function () {
    var link = document.getElementById('downloadlink');
    link.href = makeTextFile(textbox.value);
    link.style.display = 'block';
  }, false);
})();

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