How do I make mailto subject and body work in gmail etc?

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As in the comment above, changing the ampersand into a question mark:

a href="mailto:[email protected]
?subject=Childminding%20query
&body=Dear%20Jo,%0A%0AYour%20message%20here%0A%0ARegards,%0A%0AName:%0AEmail:%0APhone:%0A" 
style="text-align:center;">[email protected]</a><br /><br />

Thanks!

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Updated on June 05, 2022

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  • Laurengineer
    Laurengineer over 1 year

    Good afternoon,

    I have a site with a mailto link used to email my mothers business, pretty standard stuff

    I recently tried adding some other bits to get a standard subject and body, which works find when I use outlook (on my work PC) but doesn't work if I use my home PC which automatically opens gmail:

    The code I have for the mailto is:

    <a href="mailto:[email protected]
    &subject=Childminding%20query
    &body=Dear%20Jo,%0A%0AYour%20message%20here%0A%0ARegards,%0A%0AName:%0AEmail:%0APhone:%0A" 
    style="text-align:center;">[email protected]</a><br /><br />
    

    (it is all on one line, but that makes it very tedious to read on here)

    As I said, it works fine when the computer is forced to automatically open outlook, but not so much for gmail, is there a different method that would make it better for both?

    Result in gmail:

    http://i.imgur.com/6L7bCaD.png

  • Admin
    Admin over 5 years
    hi, I have added above code but gmail not supporting it : Screenshot : prntscr.com/k1ueud