[Javascript] cr/lf problem in calling a mail window

[FERON Matthieu]

You're a genius !!!! really !!
It works exactly as I wanted it to .
I guessed it was a combination of a kind of escape sequence but didn't find
out which one.
great thanks. :-))

 -----Message d'origine-----
De : Peter Brunone [mailto:peter at brunone.com]
Envoyé : jeudi 11 avril 2002 17:30
À : javascript at LaTech.edu
Objet : RE: [Javascript] cr/lf problem in calling a mail window



Mathieu,
 
    You are in effect sending this information through the URL, so you need
to encode it.  Otherwise the slashes can be taken as directory markings or
escape characters... either way, you can't transfer a crlf as such through
the querystring.  Some server-side engines have a way around this; for
example, ASP has a function called Server.URLEncode() that can be used to
encode all such troublesome characters.
    The encoded value of cr/lf is %0A%0D; unfortunately, this throws a
javascript "unterminated string constant" error, which does not happen with
%20 (the encoded value for space).  After some trial and error, I found that
you have to escape the *letter* in this encoded value.  Don't ask me why;
perhaps someone with a better Jscript/C background can say.
    Anyway, the end result is that you should code like this example, which
works (watch for line wrapping):
 
<A
HREF="javascript:window.location.href='mailto:peter at brunone.com?Subject=My%2
0Mail&Body=This%20is%20separated%0\A%0\Dfrom%20this';">Javascript Mail</A>
 
    Let me know how this works out for you.
 
Cheers,
 
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: javascript-admin at LaTech.edu [mailto:javascript-admin at LaTech.edu]On
Behalf Of FERON Matthieu
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 3:57 AM
To: Javascript (E-mail)
Subject: [Javascript] cr/lf problem in calling a mail window



Hello, 
I use this code to build a mail 
  window.location = " mailto:mymail at myserver.ext?Subject=Contribution
<mailto:mymail at myserver.ext?Subject=Contribution>  HTM :
&Body=Titre:\nDescription:\nInsère ici un fichier zip contenant les pages et
images à relier\nDès que les pages seront intégrées dans le site, tu
recevras une confirmation par mail.";

it works well and include my text in the right place but the '\n' doesn't
seem to work to include cr/lf. 
if anyone has an idea. 
Matthieu Féron 
mferon at adeuza.fr 
http://ffwnet.phpnet.org <http://ffwnet.phpnet.org>  

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