Javascript email help required!!!

[optimalwebsite]

Hi all! I use the following Javascript snippets to protect my email address.

<script language=javascript>
<!--
var username = "email";
var hostname = "websiteaddress.co.uk";
var linktext = "Click here";
document.write("<a href=" + "mail" + "to:" + username +
"@" + hostname + ">" + linktext + "</a>")
//-->
</script

How do you modify this so that when it's clicked on it generates the email but with text in the content or title part of the email?! I'm really stuck, so any help appreciated!

Regards,


Joel

[sands]

If you mean a subject and body text check out the code below:

<script language=javascript> 
<!-- 
var username = "email"; 
var hostname = "websiteaddress.co.uk"; 
var linktext = "Click here"; 
document.write("<a href='mailto:" + username + 
"@" + hostname + "?Subject=Subject goes here&Body=Text in the body of the mail!'>" + linktext + "</a>") 
//--> 
</script>

[optimalwebsite]

Many thanks Sands!

I went to Kerala when I was 17 and rode an elephant! What a beautiful country.


Regards,


Joel

[Mads Dam]

A small but further point. I noticed this in your code: "mail" + "to:"

Why not just "mailto:" instead..?

I know this is hardly an error (since both versions will work), but if you have more code like that it could be worth optimizing...

Another point, not so small: If you use javascript, then remember that it sometimes isn't available.
That could happen simply by raising the security-level of the browser (IE).
Or it could be caused by NoScript (Firefox). Or something else...

My point is: Offer people an alternative text explaining that they see nothing because javascript is off.
Otherwise they'll just see nothing, and won't even know that something was supposed to be present...

The alternative text could also be an image, displaying the email address so people at least could read it and enter it manually.
If javascript is on, this image would simply be covered and invisible.

In any case: don't assume that javascript always is available...