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Joshua Fox
Joshua Fox

Reputation: 19675

How can I create mailto links without recipient that will work on Chrome on Ubuntu?

I have a mailto link in my HTML. The HREF is

<a href="mailto:?to=&body=AAA,&subject=BBB">MAIL</a>

In other words, I am specifying body and subject, but not recipient.

In Chrome on Ubuntu, clicking this produces an dialog with a error 

Unable to detect the URI-scheme of "mailto:?body.....

Note that Firefox opens Thunderbird correctly for the same link.

How do I code this link so it works?

Chrome 34.0.1847.137 Ubuntu 13.10

Upvotes: 26

Views: 17507

Answers (3)

Knut
Knut

Reputation: 1790

If I understand the definition right this should work:

<a href="mailto:?to=&body=AAA,&subject=BBB">MAIL</a>

At least it does work in Chrome 36 on OSX…

RFC 6068: The 'mailto' URI Scheme

Upvotes: 44

Wezelkrozum
Wezelkrozum

Reputation: 1006

What about <a href="mailto:?to=%20&body=AAA,&subject=BBB">mail link</a>

Upvotes: 1

Giacomo1968
Giacomo1968

Reputation: 26066

Try adding a space between mailto: and ?body=AAA,&subject=BBB like this:

<a href="mailto: ?body=AAA,&subject=BBB">mail link</a>

Or even adding the space as Unicode like this:

<a href="mailto:%20?body=AAA,&subject=BBB">mail link</a>

Upvotes: 6

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