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Ooble · Sep 10th, 2006, 1:44 PM

You're not getting me. You can specify the email address, the subject and the body as follows:

<a href="mailto:email@address.com?subject=My Subject&amp;body=The Body.">...</a>

Just change the bits in red.

jtmark · Sep 10th, 2006, 8:00 PM

Ooble,

Thanks for the reply. I think we're misunderstanding each other. Check out my comment from earlier:

"
I need a button on a webpage that will do the following steps:

1. Select all the text (ctrl-a)
2. Copy the text to the clipboard or temp space (ctrl-c)
3. Open a new Outlook email
4. Paste the text into the body of the new message
"

-JTM

Ooble · Sep 10th, 2006, 8:21 PM

In that case, you can use JavaScript to replace the bits in red on demand. Unfortunately, I haven't played with the DOM in a while, and so can't help you too much (without getting a lot of it wrong, at least), but hopefully someone else will be able to do so. It should be something like this:

(Toggle Plain Text)

<a href="#" onclick="javascript:var subject=escape(document.title);var body=escape(document.body.textContent);window.open('mailto:email@address.com?subject='+subject+'&body='+body);">Mail this page to someone.</a>

jtmark · Sep 16th, 2006, 12:35 PM

Here is a working partial solution. Copy the text below into an htm file.

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>Click to mail content</title>
<script language='javascript'>

function doMail()
{
var text="";

if(document.all)
{
text=document.body.innerText;
}
else
{
text=document.body.textContent;
}

//alert(escape(text).length);

window.location="mailTo:?body="+escape(text);

}

</script>
</head>

<body>

<input type='button' name='btn' value="copy and mail" onclick="doMail();">

 Description 
What I'm looking for is a button on a webpage that will do the following: 
 
1. Select all the text of the webpage (similar to ctrl-a) 
2. Copy the text to the clipboard or temp space (similar to ctrl-c) 
3. Open a new Outlook email 
4. Paste the text into the body of the new message (similar to ctrl-v) 
 
This is the version of the script. However this script has
a limitation. Due to mailTo: attribute properties of the browsers maximum size
of the email is 2kb.

</body>

</html>

Ooble · Sep 16th, 2006, 6:56 PM

Works just as well. But for the love of all things good and holy, use [code] tags.

Sep 10th, 2006, 1:44 PM	#11
Ooble I eat cake for breakfast. Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: In my box. Posts: 4,434 Rep Power: 9	You're not getting me. You can specify the email address, the subject and the body as follows: (Toggle Plain Text) <a href="mailto:email@address.com?subject=My Subject&body=The Body.">...</a> <a href="mailto:email@address.com?subject=My Subject&body=The Body.">...</a> Just change the bits in red. __________________ Me :: You :: Them

Sep 10th, 2006, 8:21 PM	#13
Ooble I eat cake for breakfast. Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: In my box. Posts: 4,434 Rep Power: 9	In that case, you can use JavaScript to replace the bits in red on demand. Unfortunately, I haven't played with the DOM in a while, and so can't help you too much (without getting a lot of it wrong, at least), but hopefully someone else will be able to do so. It should be something like this: (Toggle Plain Text) <a href="#" onclick="javascript:var subject=escape(document.title);var body=escape(document.body.textContent);window.open('mailto:email@address.com?subject='+subject+'&body='+body);">Mail this page to someone.</a> <a href="#" onclick="javascript<b></b>:var subject=escape(document.title);var body=escape(document.body.textContent);window.open('mailto:email@address.com?subject='+subject+'&body='+body);">Mail this page to someone.</a> __________________ Me :: You :: Them

Sep 16th, 2006, 12:35 PM	#14
jtmark Newbie Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	Here is a working partial solution. Copy the text below into an htm file. <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <title>Click to mail content</title> <script language='javascript'> function doMail() { var text=""; if(document.all) { text=document.body.innerText; } else { text=document.body.textContent; } //alert(escape(text).length); window.location="mailTo:?body="+escape(text); } </script> </head> <body> <input type='button' name='btn' value="copy and mail" onclick="doMail();"> <p> <b>Description</b><br> What I'm looking for is a button on a webpage that will do the following:<br> <br> 1. Select all the text of the webpage (similar to ctrl-a)<br> 2. Copy the text to the clipboard or temp space (similar to ctrl-c)<br> 3. Open a new Outlook email<br> 4. Paste the text into the body of the new message (similar to ctrl-v)<br>  </p> <p><b><font size="6">This is the version of the script. However this script has a limitation. Due to mailTo: attribute properties of the browsers maximum size of the email is 2kb.</font></b></p> </body> </html>

Sep 16th, 2006, 6:56 PM	#15
Ooble I eat cake for breakfast. Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: In my box. Posts: 4,434 Rep Power: 9	Works just as well. But for the love of all things good and holy, use [code] tags. __________________ Me :: You :: Them

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Sep 10th, 2006, 8:00 PM	#12
jtmark Newbie Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	Ooble, Thanks for the reply. I think we're misunderstanding each other. Check out my comment from earlier: " I need a button on a webpage that will do the following steps: 1. Select all the text (ctrl-a) 2. Copy the text to the clipboard or temp space (ctrl-c) 3. Open a new Outlook email 4. Paste the text into the body of the new message " -JTM

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