Adding Subject to Mailto:

[AndyBorrett]

I have cobbled together some code from two different posts in the forum to add an 'Email a Friend' link for all products. The code is:

<!-- Begin

var thisloc=location.href + '#NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTANCHOR';
document.write('<b><SPAN class="actxxsmall">Send </SPAN><A HREF=\"mailto:\?body\=Take a look at this page I found at ' + document.title + '. You can see this item by clicking : ' + thisloc + '\" onMouseOver="window.status=\'E-Mail this item to a friend\'; return true" TITLE="Send your friends e-mail about this page"><SPAN class="actxxsmall">this page</SPAN><\/A> <SPAN class="actxxsmall">to a friend</SPAN></b>');
// End -->

My question is where do I add the ?subject part so I can give the email a subject rather than just a body?

[NormanRouxel]

It would need to be &subject=<whatever> and could be placed right at the end of the argument string. You should have only one ?variable=value in an URL; subsequent argument pairs need to be &variable=value

[AndyBorrett]

So does this mean I can't have &body and &subject in the same line?
Do I need two lines of code?

[wjcampbe]

No it means you either need ?body with &subject

OR

?subject with &body

and if you want to add any other parameters they must all be &parameter=value pairs.

[AndyBorrett]

This is the modified line but Actinic still throws up errors.

document.write('<b><SPAN class="actxxsmall">E-Mail </SPAN><A HREF=\"mailto:\?body\=Take a look at this page I found at ' + document.title + '. You can see this item by clicking : ' + thisloc + '\" onMouseOver="window.status=\'E-Mail this item to a friend\'; return true" TITLE="Send your friends e-mail about this page"><SPAN class="actxxsmall">this item</SPAN><\/A> <SPAN class="actxxsmall">to a friend</SPAN></b>'&subject=This is the subject);

[cdicken]

The correct format of the code can be seen in the advanced user guide...

Enter e-mail address to tell a friend
<input type=text value="" size=40 onchange="
var thisloc=location.href + '#NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTANCHOR';
if (this.value != '') {
location.href='mailto:' + this.value +'?subject=Take%20a%20look%20at%20NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME&body=I%20saw%20' + thisloc + '%20and%20thought%20you%20would%20be%20interested.'
}
">
<input type=button value="OK">

so try ?subject=blah&body=

[AndyBorrett]

Thanks for that Chris - works a treat.

For anyone else following this thread here is the final code.

document.write('<b><SPAN class="actxxsmall">E-Mail </SPAN><A HREF=\"mailto:\?subject=Silver Jewellery from Seriously Silver&body\=Take a look at this page I found at ' + document.title + '. You can see this item by clicking : ' + thisloc + '\" onMouseOver="window.status=\'E-Mail this item to a friend\'; return true" TITLE="Send your friends e-mail about this page"><SPAN class="actxxsmall">this item</SPAN><\/A> <SPAN class="actxxsmall">to a friend</SPAN></b>');