Getting around mailto / href / url character limit

html url anchor mailto
HyderA picture HyderA · Nov 1, 2010 · Viewed 24.8k times · Source

I have a mailto link in an anchor tag

<a href="mailto:?subject=Subject&body=Body">Email This</a>

The issue is that the Body parameter is a huge article, and there appears to be a character limit on the url.

Is there a way to get around the limit?

Answer

Pekka picture Pekka · Nov 1, 2010

Is there a way to get around the limit?

Very hardly.

It is even probable that the limitations vary from browser to browser, or from E-Mail client to E-Mail client.

I would rather use a HTML form and a server-side script to send the message.

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