I have a HTML form with 3 fields (Name, E-Mail and Message) and I want to create a custom mailto with this 3 fields but I don't want create a fixed content like this:
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Subject&body=HelloWorld">Send a mail</a>
Is this possible? If it isn't, do I have another way to do a simple formulary? My page is a landing page and only have HTML, CSS and some JavaScript (Bootstrap too).
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I found this, for example: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/set-up-an-html-mailto-form-without-a-back-end-script/
But it write too much information in the body, the result is literal:
Name=Your name
[email protected]
Comment=Testing textarea
Submit=Submit
Mailto link is a default way to sending a mail when the consumer wants to communicate or wants to give feedback, then clicking the mailto link will open a default sending mail window. So we can use mailto which directs us to the mail once the form is submitted.
There is no feature in HTML to send the form submission directly to an email address. What about “mailto” ? Using mailto: You can set the action field of the form as 'mailto'. In this case, the web browser invokes the email client to send the form submission to the email address specified.
In HTML you can specify a mailto: address in the <form> element's [action] attribute.
I can answer myself, after a deep search I could fix my problem.
JavaScript:
function sendMail() {
var name = $('#contact #name').val();
var email = $('#contact #email').val();
var message = $('#contact textarea').val();
window.location.href = 'mailto:[email protected]?subject=The subject - ' + name + ' (' + email + ')' + '&body=' + message;
};
HTML:
<form>
<input type="text" id="name" name="name" >
<input type="email" id="email" name="email">
<textarea rows="5"></textarea>
</form>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" onclick="sendMail()">Button Text</button>
We can't use a submit input, because window.location.href doesn't work with it; we need to use a button who will run a function.
And it's all, very simple :)
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