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Apr 18.2008

Hi All,

First of all I am newbie with Javascript so terms for describing what I need may be confusing a bit – but hopefully you get it.

I do have a calculator and I would like to add a button in it from where you could send input and calculated values to someone using a default email client (on local machine; opens your email client) so that input and calculated values would be in a email message body.

Example:

Parameter 1 = <input value by user>
Parameter 2 = <input value by user>

Result 3 = <input result value calculated from given values>

Is it possible to do with HTML + Javascript ? I can not have server side scripts.

Thanks in advance,
Tomi

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@FangApr 18.2008 — See: http://www.ssi-developer.net/design/mailto.shtml
&lt;form name="frm" action="#" method="post" enctype="text/plain"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
Email address:&lt;input type="text" name="email"&gt; Results:&lt;input type="text" name="results"&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;
&lt;a onclick="this.href='mailto:?to='+frm.email.value+'&amp;amp;subject=Results&amp;amp;body='+frm.results.value;" href="#"&gt;Send&lt;/a&gt;
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@tomikauthorApr 18.2008 — Hi Fang,

Thanks a lot for that =)! That was exactly what I was searching. Only downside of that seems to be that you can add "only" 255 character in to message body ( I wasn't aware about that). Is there any workaround for that 255 character "limitation" ? Is there similar method e.g. to insert values in to a separate *.txt -file and send the *.txt -file as a attachment via email when you have pressed a button ?

Thanks again, Fang !


/Tomi
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@FangApr 18.2008 — Attachments can only be added if you use a server side language.
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@tomikauthorApr 18.2008 — Hi Fang,

OK! Okay, I don't have it ?... Is there any other workaround for that 255 character limitation ?

/Tomi
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@FangApr 18.2008 — The limit is not written in stone; try it out in different email clients.

Thunderbird can send/recieve a lot more.
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