Is it possible to implement mailto: function on submit button like <input type="submit" />? I use ASP.NET MVC. Maybe there is some tricky controller action result to achieve this. Could you please help me?
P.S. I know that I can make anchor looks like a button.
In HTML you can specify a mailto: address in the <form> element's [action] attribute.
<form action="mailto:youraddr@domain.tld" method="GET">
<input name="subject" type="text" />
<textarea name="body"></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="Send" />
</form>
What this will do is allow the user's email client to create an email prepopulated with the fields in the <form>.
What this will not do is send an email.
This seems to work fine:
<button onclick="location.href='mailto:em@i.l';">send mail</button>
What you need to do is use the onchange event listener in the form and change the href attribute of the send button according to the context of the mail:
<form id="form" onchange="mail(this)">
<label>Name</label>
<div class="row margin-bottom-20">
<div class="col-md-6 col-md-offset-0">
<input class="form-control" name="name" type="text">
</div>
</div>
<label>Email <span class="color-red">*</span></label>
<div class="row margin-bottom-20">
<div class="col-md-6 col-md-offset-0">
<input class="form-control" name="email" type="text">
</div>
</div>
<label>Date of visit/departure </label>
<div class="row margin-bottom-20">
<div class="col-md-3 col-md-offset-0">
<input class="form-control w8em" name="adate" type="text">
<script>
datePickerController.createDatePicker({
// Associate the text input to a DD/MM/YYYY date format
formElements: {
"adate": "%d/%m/%Y"
}
});
</script>
</div>
<div class="col-md-3 col-md-offset-0">
<input class="form-control" name="ddate" type="date">
</div>
</div>
<label>No. of people travelling with</label>
<div class="row margin-bottom-20">
<div class="col-md-3 col-md-offset-0">
<input class="form-control" placeholder="Adults" min=1 name="adult" type="number">
</div>
<div class="col-md-3 col-md-offset-0">
<input class="form-control" placeholder="Children" min=0 name="childeren" type="number">
</div>
</div>
<label>Cities you want to visit</label><br />
<div class="checkbox-inline">
<label><input type="checkbox" name="city" value="Cassablanca">Cassablanca</label>
</div>
<div class="checkbox-inline">
<label><input type="checkbox" name="city" value="Fez">Fez</label>
</div>
<div class="checkbox-inline">
<label><input type="checkbox" name="city" value="Tangier">Tangier</label>
</div>
<div class="checkbox-inline">
<label><input type="checkbox" name="city" value="Marrakech">Marrakech</label>
</div>
<div class="checkbox-inline">
<label><input type="checkbox" name="city" value="Rabat">Rabat</label>
</div>
<div class="row margin-bottom-20">
<div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-0">
<textarea rows="4" placeholder="Activities Intersted in" name="activities" class="form-control"></textarea>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row margin-bottom-20">
<div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-0">
<textarea rows="6" class="form-control" name="comment" placeholder="Comment"></textarea>
</div>
</div>
<p><a id="send" class="btn btn-primary">Create Message</a></p>
</form>
JavaScript
function mail(form) {
var name = form.name.value;
var city = "";
var adate = form.adate.value;
var ddate = form.ddate.value;
var activities = form.activities.value;
var adult = form.adult.value;
var child = form.childeren.value;
var comment = form.comment.value;
var warning = ""
for (i = 0; i < form.city.length; i++) {
if (form.city[i].checked)
city += " " + form.city[i].value;
}
var str = "mailto:abc@x.com?subject=travel to morocco&body=";
if (name.length > 0) {
str += "Hi my name is " + name + ", ";
} else {
warning += "Name is required"
}
if (city.length > 0) {
str += "I am Intersted in visiting the following citis: " + city + ", ";
}
if (activities.length > 0) {
str += "I am Intersted in following activities: " + activities + ". "
}
if (adate.length > 0) {
str += "I will be ariving on " + adate;
}
if (ddate.length > 0) {
str += " And departing on " + ddate;
}
if (adult.length > 0) {
if (adult == 1 && child == null) {
str += ". I will be travelling alone"
} else if (adult > 1) {
str += ".We will have a group of " + adult + " adults ";
}
if (child == null) {
str += ".";
} else if (child > 1) {
str += "along with " + child + " children.";
} else if (child == 1) {
str += "along with a child.";
}
}
if (comment.length > 0) {
str += "%0D%0A" + comment + "."
}
if (warning.length > 0) {
alert(warning)
} else {
str += "%0D%0ARegards,%0D%0A" + name;
document.getElementById('send').href = str;
}
}
Or you can create a form with action:mailto
<form action="mailto:rohit@k.com">
check this out.
http://webdesign.about.com/od/forms/a/aa072699mailto.htm
But this actually submits a form via email.Is this what you wanted? You can also use just
<button onclick=""> and then some javascript with it to ahieve this.
And you can make a <a> look like button.
There can be a lot of ways to work this around. Do a little search.
Just include "a" tag in "button" tag.
<button><a href="mailto:..."></a></button>
The full list of possible fields in the html based email-creating form:
<form action="mailto:youraddr@domain.tld" method="GET">
<input name="subject" type="text" /></br>
<input name="cc" type="email" /><br />
<input name="bcc" type="email" /><br />
<textarea name="body"></textarea><br />
<input type="submit" value="Send" />
</form>
