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:[email protected]"
+ "[email protected]"
+ "&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