Set a mailto link with a subject containing an ampersand (&)

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zooblin picture zooblin · May 15, 2014 · Viewed 20.8k times · Source

Im using the following mailto link to send an email:

 <a class="share3" title="" href="mailto:?subject=@check&amp;body=@domain">

It works well, but sometimes my subject will contain an ampersand (&) character, and when it does my email is created without a body.

Any way to resolve this problem?

Answer

edcs picture edcs · May 15, 2014

In order to get special/reserved characters into a URL, you must encode them - to get an & to work, it must be encoded to %26.

More details here: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

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