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mailto code to format email with title of page

I need to code a mailto button that will use the user's default mail program to mail a link to whatever page they are looking at on my Wordpress site at www.frugalmule.com. Assistance is greatly appreciated.

Jason C. Levine

Mail it to whom? Mailto needs a target...

rtod2

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Whoever they put in?

Jason C. Levine

mailto doesn't work that way. You can do:

<a href="mailto:someaddress@somedomain.com">Click here to send me an email</a>

What you are talking about is some form of sharing thing. I recommed getting the AddThis plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis/

gwkg

You can do it with javascript, but you might want to repost in the javascript zone for a javascript expert to help you with that.

You need to listen for a blur event on the input field and then put the contents of the input box into the href attribute of the <a> tag.

It's not THAT difficult, but I can't do it off the top of my head (yet) and I'm logging off for the night.

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gwkg

Scratch that... try this

<label>Email Address: </label>
<input type="text" id="send_email" onBlur="document.getElementById('email_link').href = 'mailto:' + this.value + '?subject=Check Out This Link&body=' + document.URL; ">

<a href="javascript:void(0)" id="email_link">Click to Send Email</a>

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rtod2

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gwkg,
Thank you! That works well here http://www.frugalmule.com/assist-me/ except that it appears to create a form which I can do without. Also, the title should take the same name as the link except capitals and not spaces (assist-me becomes Assist Me). The link itself should only state the last part of the URL explicitly (eg. assist-me). Thank you sir.

rtod2

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