mailto link multiple body lines

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having trouble getting multiple lines to work correctly in a mailto link  In my case I m testing it with an Outlook default mail reader    The following is put in an anchor href   mailto email address com  amp subject test amp body type 20your amp body message 20here  only  message here  shows up in the email body   whether I use chrome or IE   thoughts

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Use a single body parameter within the mailto string Use  0D 0A as newline   The mailto URI Scheme is specified by by RFC2368  July 1998  and RFC6068  October 2010    Below is an extract of section 5 of this last RFC            line breaks in the body of a message MUST be encoded with   0D 0A     Implementations MAY add a final line break to the body of a message    even if there is no trailing   0D 0A  in the body         See also in section 6 the example from the same RFC    lt mailto infobot example com body send 20current-issue 0D 0Asend 20index gt    The above mailto body corresponds to   send current-issue send index

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To get body lines use escape    body line    escape   n      so  href    mailto me my com body hello   body line  I like this

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You can use URL encoding to encode the newline as  0A   mailto email address com subject test amp body type 20your 0Amessage 20here  While the above appears to work in many cases  user olibre points out that the RFC governing the mailto URI scheme specifies that  0D 0A  carriage return   line feed  should be used instead of  0A  line feed   See also  Newline Representations

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This is what I do  just add  n and use encodeURIComponent   Example  var emailBody    1st line  n 2nd line  n 3rd line    emailBody   encodeURIComponent emailBody    href    mailto me somesite com body     emailBody    Check encodeURIComponent docs

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