In ColdFusion, one can use to send pre-filled bodies WITH HTML Content, but cannot launch Outlook.
With HTML's "mailto:", one can launch Outlook but cannot open pre-filled bodies WITH HTML Content. I know the "mailto:" function can pre-fill bodies with regular text only.
Is there a way to launch outlook with a pre-filled body WITH HTML content?
This isn't a comparable scenario. Coldfusion is serverside, and the HTML mailto link just triggers the browser default behaviour (which may be not to open outlook, but do something else).
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I need to have a button in my outlook message that displays an image (inside the message itself) when clicked. I tried to put a HTML with Javascript handling onclick event, but scripts wont work inside outlook emails. What can I do to get it done?
Thanks
JavaScript does not run in emails, it would be a security risk (and an annoyance). You are actually very restricted on most clients, when I was styling a newsletter for a client I had to resort to table layouts.
The best you can do is put a link in the email which will redirect the user to a web page.
I am doing a basic html page, using a free web template that I found online. In the "contact" section, I would like to set it up such that
Myself
allows emailing to myself from the page directly. However, when I click on the link, nothing comes up, no emailing program... nothing. Could it have something to do with the fact that I got a free web template with it's own included css file, which could be overriding whatever emailing functionality the html might provide? This seems relatively simple, but for whatever reason nothing happens when I click the email link.
The "mailto:" function opens a new e-mail in your default e-mail client. Since it looks like you are using GMail, then I am just guessing (correct me if I'm wrong) but you are using the web interface to compose and check you gmail messages and don't have a default email client set up. Either setup your default client (Outlook, Thunderbird, Mail, etc) OR if you are using Chrome web browser you can set it as your default gmail client (Making Gmail your default mail application).
Look which Standard-Email-Client you are using. In Firefox: Options > Applications > Filter > Search for "mailto". I guess the Client-list is empty or not set.
CSS can't block mailto, but JS can.
Try to put your code in a simmple blank HTML file and click the link:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
Myself
</body>
</html>
You need an email client that processes the URL:Mailto filetype.
Without a proper default email client nothing ever happens when the link gets clicked.
Btw. mailto usage can be extended to include a draft and receivers in the created email.
<a href="mailto:someone#yoursite.com
?cc=someoneelse#theirsite.com, another#thatsite.com, me#mysite.com
&bcc=lastperson#theirsite.com
&subject=Big%20News&body=Body-goes-here">mail now</a>
I have an html form that I'm sending to external customers so they can fill up and send it back to me.
The problem occurs when they click the submit button on the form.
For some reason in windows 7 64 bit, with outlook 2010 and explorer 9, mailto action doesn't work for me.
An empty outlook message is displayed and only the subject and recipients are added.
There is no attachment and no body text.
When I change the default browser to FF I receive the text I wanted in the body section instead as an attachment (postdata.att).
I can't use server code cause the html form is sent by outlook to external customers, so asp/php/cgi is irrelevant for me.
The external customers have no access to the organization's intranet and since the html form is sent as an email attachment, it's also not hosted on an internet server.
Does anyone has a solution?
Thanks,
mailto action doesn't work for me.
mailto depends on specific combinations of correctly configured browsers and email clients. It is not suitable for pubic use in an action attribute as support is too poor.
Use a server side process instead. Note that form support in HTML email is also poor, so you should link to a form hosted on the web.
I can't use server code cause the html form is sent by outlook to external customers, so asp/php/cgi is irrelevant for me.
You need to set up a public facing webserver.
In a project I am sending an email to a user. In this email there will be an html form in which user can fill and make an http post request. I have tried sending a normal html page with links and it seem well on outlook-2010 like it do on browsers. However when i embed html form code inside email its not generating like its generating in a browser view. Thus, can we embed an html form in an email and see it as expected in outlook 2010.
No.
HTML parsers/renderers in email clients vary from "Actual browsers" to "Actual browsers which only get the HTML after some vicious preprocessing" to "Jokes".
Forms are a no-no in emails. Include a URL to a form on a page on the WWW that the user can open in a browser instead.
I want to generate a mail body in which i want to make a link, on which user clicks and add new contact outlook popup opens into the client screen.
How this can be done??
This is what vCard was invented for. Create a vCard file (from Outlook or using a third party application), and host it online on some webspace. Or, if needed, you can create a webpage that generates the vCard dynamically. Simply add a hyperlink to the vCard URL to the email message body.
Upon clicking upon the URL, Outlook will open up the contents from the vCard as a new Outlook contact.
That is, if Outlook isn't setup to block URLs, in which case you'd be better off sending the vCard as an attachment. Outlook signatures can be setup to contain a vCard.
I'm afraid this will most likely turn out to be impossible. Scripting is usually taboo in E-Mail clients.
This may be possible from within a web site using IE specific scripting (in VBScript, connecting to Outlook via COM or something), but security settings would block that from working for the vast majority of users anyway.