Comments on: HTML Tip #1: Subjects in Mailto Links

By: Alfredo Baylock

Alfredo Baylock — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:31:24 +0000

Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my Website ?

By: kris

kris — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:03:14 +0000

L.S.
If i want to make something which resembles/looks like a postcard , how can i create a blank ‘ send to field ‘

Best regards,

Kris

By: merlin65537

merlin65537 — Tue, 23 May 2006 06:54:51 +0000

If you specify the mailto information in Javascript, you can also include a noscript-part where you display the e-mail address in an image, or in a ‘me AT somedomain DOT tld’-like way. This way, people with JavaScript on can simply click the link, while others can still access it using their brain, which we can hope to be something the spam-bots don’t have. If you don’t want external files to your HTML-document, you can just include the image using CSS with a url(data:…) attribute. I have also seen some people providing audio-files where they spell their e-mail address.

By: verisimilidude

verisimilidude — Thu, 18 May 2006 23:27:57 +0000

If you specify the mailto information in Javascript then a certain portion of your users will never see it appear either. Not everyone runs with Javascript on all the time. I would think anyone browsing on this site would understand that.

By: Mark Waschkowski

Mark Waschkowski — Fri, 12 May 2006 14:00:59 +0000

In terms of spam robots, if you specify the mailto information from Javascript the robots can’t harvest because it never appears in the source

By: Oliver Mason

Oliver Mason — Wed, 10 May 2006 16:26:33 +0000

I never use mailto: links, as I’m too worried they might be harvested by Spam robots. It’s a shame really, as this looks like a very useful idea!

By: George Bailey

George Bailey — Tue, 09 May 2006 17:16:56 +0000

It works in outlook. You can also specify a “starter” for the body of the email.

?&body=The stuff you want to include.%0AThis would be the second line of the body because of the “%0A.”