Set a mailto link with a subject containing an ampersand (&)

Question

Im using the following mailto link to send an email:

 <a class="share3" title="" href="mailto:?subject=@check&amp;body=@domain">

It works well, but sometimes my subject will contain an ampersand (&) character, and when it does my email is created without a body.

Any way to resolve this problem?

score 35 · Accepted Answer · answered May 15 '14 at 15:06

35

In order to get special/reserved characters into a URL, you must encode them - to get an & to work, it must be encoded to %26.

answered May 15 '14 at 15:06

edcs

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered May 15 '14 at 15:05

5

use %26 for the & in the subject.

answered May 15 '14 at 15:05

Alex

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