I have an email enabled form:

<form method="POST" action="mailto:[email protected]">
...
<input type="text" name="body">
...

The email sent contains a body that looks like this:

body=Dear john,

I'm leaving you for the TV repairman.

How can I eliminate the name of the form field so it just looks like this:

Dear john,

I'm leaving you for the TV repairman.

I've tried omitting it from the input tag, but then the value is not displayed at all.

In a related vein, is is possible to change the "=" to a ":" or something else?

Hello Ron,
Sadly I do not think this can be altered because, essentially, you are simply passing the POST data into the email which literally looks like <formfield>=<formvalue> which I am sure you know.

Also, the above method may or may not work depending on the email client the user has installed on their pc.

http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol3/form_no4.htm

hth.

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I've read the myriad warnings about not using mailto forms, but don't think they matter in this instance. This is an INTRANET application where both browser and email client versions are guaranteed.

I am more interested in suppressing the name of the field in the email than in changing the "=" to ":". I would like the email to read like a normal email sent to a person, not a like an EDI file of fieldname=value pairs.

I understand what you are trying to do but void of some server side programming I don't think your going to have much luck finding a pure HTML answer to this.

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I am exploring other options. I was just trying to avoid doing a bunch of work if there was a simple solution. Surely somebody else has had the same issue?

Thanks!

My 2 cents is that you're right, and lots of other people have had this issue. However, I think what you're running up against is the limits of what can be done with HTML. When all those other people ran into this problems, I believe they solved it by inventing Javascript and server side programming. Far from "doing a bunch of work", I think you'll find it easier to locate a simple PHP or .NET script on the internet. You are dealing with a common issue, there's lots written about it. Just run some Google searches.

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