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.
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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).
I want to write an email for rsvp action to my friends. I have written the code in note pad. where do i paste the code to create html mark up email? Please help me.
The likes of Gmail and others won't let you paste HTML source code as your email. You could display your HTML constructed document in your browser and copy/paste it into your email. This way formatting and images should be kept if your email is HTML enabled.
make sure your email client (thunderbird, yahoo, hotmail etc) is set up to send html email in your settings and then simply paste the html into the body of the message. if you are in the clients "html" edit mode you should be good to go.
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?
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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 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?
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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.
Wondering if it is ok to have a form inside an HTML email. All i would be doing is having an image input submit to a paypal buy page. I would like it to go right to paypal without going to a marketing page first...
I would have the whole form that paypal requires for a button.
You'll need to make sure the Content-Type of the email is set to text/html and the recipient's email client will have to support HTML emails, other than that I should mostly be fine.
Most email clients do not support forms within them, this includes outlook 2007, ideally if you can have this as a link behind a image is better as then you will get more support across email clients.