I have to sent a confirmation email to the users. and on clicking of a link, i want to open their default email client and add a HTML into the body tag.

var subject = Your transaction No: +': ' + $('#confirmationNumber').text()+ ' is confirmed';
var emailBody = $('#confirmation').html();
$(this).attr('href','mailto:'+userEmail+'&subject=' + subject +'&body='+ emailBody); 

it want the HTML in 'emailBody' to get appended to the body as HTML. But it displays me the entire HTML tags instead.

Is there a way i can append a HTML in the body ?

I have to sent a confirmation email to the users. and on clicking of a link, i want to open their default email client and add a HTML into the body tag.

var subject = Your transaction No: +': ' + $('#confirmationNumber').text()+ ' is confirmed';
var emailBody = $('#confirmation').html();
$(this).attr('href','mailto:'+userEmail+'&subject=' + subject +'&body='+ emailBody); 

it want the HTML in 'emailBody' to get appended to the body as HTML. But it displays me the entire HTML tags instead.

Is there a way i can append a HTML in the body ?

• javascript
• html-email

3 Answers 3

The answer is short but unfortunate:

No.

When using mailto:-links, you can only specify text, not HTML. Even if the user’s mail client poses a mail message using HTML, your body text will only be inserted as text.

There’s nothing you can do about that from a web page.

Use

var emailBody = $('#confirmation').text();

First of all, some fixes to your code:

var subject = 'Your transaction No: ' + $('#confirmationNumber').text() + ' is confirmed',
    emailBody = $('#confirmation').html();
$(this).attr('href', 'mailto:' + userEmail + '&subject=' + subject + '&body=' + encodeURI(emailBody));

• Use single var keyword and separate variables with mas
• subject was concatenated badly

Next, if you want to pass html code in link you have to encode special chars, which encodeURI() does.

Oops, encoded body isn't treated as html in email client.. I googled for a while and it seems you can't pass it correctly, can't you send a message instead of opening client?